CORI… Improving the Practice of Endoscopy

"Advancing the effective and appropriate practice of endoscopy to enhance the quality of patient care."

The Clinical Outcomes Research Initiative, CORI, provides gastrointestinal physicians, nurses and researchers software, research data and tailor-made services aimed to advance the overall practice of endoscopy.

CORI Software Applications and Services

Starting with the CORI software, physicians can enter their procedure notes with point and click ease and produce a medical report in minutes. Data is saved to provide the physician access to historical records and aggregate data provides new approaches to implement powerful quality assurance methods not known in the dictation-based practice. CORI offers expert technical services and support at no charge to members of the consortium.

CORI software is highly customizable to suit the needs of your practice. Currently, CORI is installed in a wide variety of facilities ranging from hospitals, universities, Veteran's hospitals (VA's) and private practices.

CORI Research Data and Services

Aggregate data is one method of improving your practice. CORI takes this one step further in improving the overall practice by combining all data in the National Endoscopic Database, NED. This data is used for publication, grant writing and a wide variety of research studies.

Advancing the Overall Practice of Endoscopy

Practices that choose to join CORI participate in a growing consortium from around the world contributing to endoscopic research. Consortium members can contribute in several ways:

• Sending procedure data to the National Endoscopic Database (NED)
• CORI participants agree to send procedure data to the NED weekly via an automated send function. Most identifiable patient information is removed, and a limited data set is transmitted. The data from CORI’s participating sites are tested for quality and merged into the NED. The aggregate data are used for a variety of research purposes.
• By participating in global research efforts led by prominent investigators, CORI consortium members support a variety of prospective research studies. CORI assists with protocol development and the IRB approval process, develops study-reporting modules, and coordinates myriad research services.

Leading a Research Effort

CORI works with GI researchers to query the NED, refine research hypotheses, develop study protocols, recruit new CORI participants and advise on funding sources.