Audits are performed routinely in people attending hospitals and are an important way of detecting important changes in diseases (e.g. increases in people with certain diseases)and identifying ways in which people can best be treated. Audits are common in healthcare and are increasingly being performed in the veterinary community.This is an important way of measuring how well we are treating our patients, identifying areas where improvements can be made and monitoring outcomes in patients after changes have been made (e.g. survival rates or rates of complications that develop during or after treatment).
Clinical audit in colic surgery
Colic surgery is an area where a number of equine clinicians and researchers have been active in measuring outcomes over many years and is one of the areas in veterinary medicinewhere clinical audit is relatively advanced.The need for an international colic audit was first identified by Dr. Tim Mair and Dr. Nathanial Whiteand is why this project has been developed.
The INCISE project
The INternational ColIc SurgEry audit project (INCISE) has been developed by Professor Debra Archer and colleagues at the University of Liverpool in conjunction with Dr. Tim Mair and a website / app development team. It has been funded by the University of Liverpool. INCISE will establish national and international benchmarks and will enable clinics to identify areas of good practice that can be shared with the international equine colic surgery community.This is an international collaboration between equine veterinary clinics across the world. Our aim is to improve the global quality of care and outcomes for horses and their owners following colic surgery.
Participating Clinics
The University Of Liverpool Equine hospital (Leahurst)
