EP.FRI.857 Audit and quality improvement project; data entry into the NELA database from Royal Stoke university hospital

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Abstract Aims During the period December-2018 to November-2019 a total of 84 cases were entered on the NELA website, corresponding to HES data suggesting 392 laparotomies. This suggests a possible case acquisition of 21% prompting us to look at our data acquisition in detail. Methods Interrogation of the NELA data from January–March 2020 was done from NELA website and hospital records. Results Analysis revealed that during this period 45 patients had laparotomy recorded whereas hospital database recorded 68 laparotomies. Of the 45 cases entered on the NELA database, only 1 patient had a complete data set entered. 22 cases had 87% data entry and 22 cases had <50% of the data fields completed. Firstly, we were not capturing all patients who underwent an emergency laparotomy and secondly our data entry for the patients we did report was incomplete. This led us to engage in a quality improvement project with following measures - Conclusions We re-assessed the case ascertainment and completeness of data collection in the period April 2020 – June 2020 and case ascertainment rate increased to 54% and all the entries were complete and locked.