Scottish Audit of Intracranial Vascular Malformations (SAIVMs)
SAIVMs is a national clinical audit, which is the result of a multicentre, multidisciplinary collaboration between representatives of the four Scottish neuroscience centres, other relevant specialists throughout NHS Scotland, patients, and general practitioners (GPs).
SAIVMs evaluates health services for patients with IVMs, in order to:
- monitor equity of access to treatment;
- monitor patterns of intervention;
- monitor the outcomes of patients who do and do not receive interventional treatment (and thereby monitor the beneficial and adverse effects of these interventions);
- assess the health economics of treatment use;
- strive for quality improvement in clinical services in Scotland;
Participants must be age 16 years or over at the time of diagnosis, permanently resident in Scotland at the time of diagnosis, and have been first diagnosised (by imaging or histology) in the years 1999 to 2003 or in 2006 or later.
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