For healthcare professionals
Benefits of site participation
VCOR welcomes participation from all eligible health services. Participating hospitals are provided with access to the data they enter and can use this for their own quality audits, research and/or reporting.
VCOR provides regular, individualised data and quality reports to sites to allow them to benchmark their own performance against other participating centres. This provides health services with a unique opportunity to identify strengths and weaknesses in the services they provide.
Read more about the indicators of quality of care we use, and the reports we generate here.
Find out more about access to data here.
How to participate
To contribute data, health services must nominate a local Principal Investigator (PI) and, in due course, assign a Data Manager to undertake and oversee VCOR operations at the site. Ultimately, the PI is responsible for unit participation and compliance with VCOR policies and procedures.
Prospective sites wishing to participate in VCOR should email vcor@monash.edu. VCOR may also approach individual clinicians and/or sites directly to invite participation.
Getting started
Once initial contact has been made, the VCOR project team will advise sites how to begin preparing for VCOR data collection and will help coordinate application submissions for ethical and governance approval. VCOR will provide training to all relevant staff prior to data collection commencing.
There are three stages of setting up a site for VCOR participation:
- Engagement of relevant hospital staff, departments and administration
- Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) and local governance approvals
- Training of Data Manager and other relevant staff
Eligibility
Any health service that that wants to participate in VCOR must be able to meet the following criteria:
- Ability to enter all eligible procedures or treatments onto the database;
- Availability of resources to nominate a VCOR Data Manager to oversee and manage local data collection;
- Ability to establish and maintain internal systems for data accuracy and timely data entry;
- Willingness to comply with the project protocol and HREC requirements;
- Willingness to sign a VCOR Registry Agreement
To view the health services currently participating in VCOR, please view our list of participating hospitals.