The National Endoscopic Database (NED)

CORI practice sites capture endoscopic procedure data that are automatically transmitted to CORI. The practice data are stripped of most patient and physician identifiers before transmitting, tested for completeness and accuracy, merged with data from all participating practices, and stored in the National Endoscopic Database (NED).

CORI implements rigorous data standards to ensure:

• HIPAA compliance: CORI adheres to the most stringent HIPAA regulations. Patient identifiers are removed from the data files prior to transmission to CORI qualifying the data files to be a Limited Data Set. In addition, all practitioner identifiers are removed from all data sent to CORI.
• A secure computing environment: Data stored in the NED are protected in a secured facility using state-of-the-art computer security methods.
• Data quality testing: All data are tested for completeness and accuracy prior to NED inclusion.
• Controlled data access: Research requests for aggregate data from the NED require approval by a research review committee.

Uses of NED Data

CORI may provide summary data of interest to both community-based and research-oriented providers, pharmaceutical companies, hospital or healthcare systems and other GI organizations. Data uses include:

Practice Support

Practice Benchmarking - Allows practices and individual endoscopists to compare their results with national trends.

Quality Assurance Reporting - Supports quality improvement initiatives from such organizations as JCAHO and NCQA.

CORI participants have the ability to request simple queries that include reports of key statistics and practice trends. Please submit your request using the Data Request Form. Simple queries requested for practice benchmarking and quality improvement efforts do not require approval by CORI's Research Operations Committee. Researchers whose practice sites participate in the CORI consortium may request simple queries free of charge. CORI participants with more complex requests may be charged a service fee.

Examples of simple queries include:

• Findings frequencies by procedure type
• Indications frequencies by procedure type
• Indications or findings by age, race or gender
• Site type distribution
• Patient demographics
• Sedation medications used by procedure
• Proportion of COL including polyp findings
• Most frequent indication per procedure
• Therapies used for a specific finding
• Procedure completion rate
• Frequencies of procedures by month/quarter

Note: Data cannot be used for abstracts or publications without completing the proper request and review process. If you require data for an abstract or publication, please submit your request via the Data Request Form. If you have any questions, please contact CORI Research Services at research@cori.org.

Research Support

Hypothesis Testing - CORI acts as an excellent hypothesis-generating tool by providing insight and substantiation for development of a research hypothesis.

Pilot Research Data - Fulfills a requirement for grant proposals.

Data for Research Proposals - Supports a wide range of endoscopic research projects and clinical studies.