TQIP Collaboratives

• Benchmark risk-adjusted outcomes as a state, region, or hospital-based system against all nationally participating TQIP centers
• Discover areas for system-level trauma center quality improvement
• Bring stakeholders together to improve trauma care outcomes across the system
• Identify and share best practices among Collaborative participants

A TQIP Collaborative must be comprised entirely of either Adult Level I & II TQIP centers or Pediatric TQIP centers. A minimum of three centers is required to form a Collaborative. We do not currently offer a Level III TQIP Collaborative, but this is under development.

Regardless of administration type, all hospitals must sign a Collaborative Addendum to their TQIP Hospital Participation Agreement, which allows for their data to be used for participation in the Collaborative.

There are two types of TQIP Collaborative administrative structures: third-party-administered and hospital-administered.

• In a third-party administration structure, a third-party (i.e. health department, foundation, hospital system) is an entity that has a lead role in the trauma system development and oversight. This third-party engages in contracting and payment directly with TQIP to administer the Collaborative. The annual fee, paid by the third-party, is based on the number of Adult Level I & II or Pediatric TQIP centers that will participate in your Collaborative.
• A group of hospitals that do not fall under the scope of a third-party entity may form a hospital-administered Collaborative. Each hospital in the collaborative group will engage in contracting and payment directly with TQIP.

A collaborative may choose to enroll as either de-identified (standard) or identified. In a de-identified collaborative type, collaborative participants are individually represented but not named in the collaborative report. In an identified collaborative type, the third-party collaborative leader (or each hospital, in the case of a hospital-administered collaborative) will receive a separate excel file containing data that allows for the identification of collaborative participants in the collaborative report at the center level. For TQIP staff to produce this additional file, all collaborative participants must agree to this identification type and sign the appropriate addendum.

Standard Reporting

Semi-annual reports aggregate data from all participating hospitals into a single Collaborative entity. This compares collective Collaborative performance to all other TQIP participants and provides an opportunity to identify system-wide issues or strengths, which may not be identifiable from the perspective of individual institutions. The Collaborative Benchmark Reports offer a bird’s eye view of system performance.

Custom Reporting

For an additional fee each report cycle, a collaborative may request a custom data file aggregating the individual TQP Data Center Data Download Report exports of all collaborative participants.

• Available on the Trauma Quality Programs (TQP) Data Center, The TQP Explorer augments the static reports and allows Collaborative participants to explore patient-level trends related to risk-adjusted outcomes, and can be used to inform performance improvement initiatives within the Collaborative.
• The TQIP Participant Use File is a dataset available for request, which allows participants the flexibility to conduct independent analyses on TQIP data.

• Collaborative leadership (third-party administration structure only) receives two complimentary registrations to attend the TQIP Annual Conference.
• Collaboratives have access to the variety of educational opportunities available to individual TQIP hospitals, including the TQIP education modules and monthly quizzes.
• TQIP provides networking opportunities at the TQIP Annual Conference for individual Collaboratives to increase opportunities for communication and relationship building among Collaborative participants.

• Strong leadership
• Culture of trust
• System-wide goals and initiatives
• Clear roles and responsibilities
• Networking among hospitals
• Sharing of results
• Consistent data