IBD Qorus
IBD Qorus, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s national quality-of-care initiative, enables physicians to provide their patients with the best possible care while also testing ideas that may eventually help people all over the country.
IBD Qorus (rhymes with chorus) brings together the voices of clinicians, quality improvement experts, and patients. Nearly 50 GI practices across the country are participating and the program continues to grow.
Participating in IBD Qorus
Patients enroll in IBD Qorus through their healthcare provider. This gives the patients access to an electronic dashboard that tracks their health based on data input by them and their doctors. The dashboard also includes sophisticated population health tools (ones used to study large groups of individuals), which can help doctors better track a patient’s symptoms and response to medicines and treatments.
Anonymous patient data gets pooled into a database that contains details about thousands of patients. Participating physicians review the pooled information and discuss ideas for improvements in how to manage their patients via monthly conference calls and in-person events held twice a year. This helps gastroenterologists across the country learn about how to provide the best care for IBD patients.
Working Toward Long-Term Remission
Currently, we’re using IBD Qorus to study whether adhering to a “treat to target” strategy will translate into helping more patients reach and sustain deep remission (meaning they don’t have any symptoms or signs of inflammation in the gut that are visible upon endoscopy). Working together patients and their healthcare provider identify goals (or targets) for their care and continuously evaluate their progress together.
Data from IBD Qorus feeds into IBD Plexus, our research platform with linked biosamples (blood, stool, and intestinal cells).
