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 I have been using the first-ever, web-based picc registry for a few months now.  It was officially launched at the AVA national meeting  3 weeks ago!  This allows my team and I to utilize a very user-friendly, secure platform to enter all kinds of insertion, care and maintenance and infection data points.  The reports generated are real time and each clinician only sees their own reports, while the team lead can view the overall team data. These quality reports are "First Attmept Success Rates," "Malpositon Rates," "Overall Success Rates," "Days from Admission to Referral" and many more! The national database can be used as an assessment tool as well.  The line insertions for any new or previous patient will appear in one location for us to review and this then allows us to determine the right device for that patient.  The great thing is that in the in the very near future I will be able to receive comparison data to other like hospitals from across the US.  They are actually going to provide a national data comparison number to every particpating hospital.  Vascular access clinicians are actually creating this non-biased, real-life data.  If you are interested check out www.piccregistry.com.

The problem with using EXCEL, Access or other privateley developed programs is that you will not have ability to compare yourself to like hospitals or see a national benchmark. As a group of professionals if we stop collecting data in isolation and put all that data into one database like other devices and disease states do,  WE as a group of professionals will be the driving force in vascular access!  

are you still using this?  can anyone share with me what I can anticipate in terms of time for data entry?  Would love some feedback about this site...