Table 6.

Advantages of TOPS and NSQIP Databases

TOPS	NSQIP
Tailored for plastic surgery	Data collected by trained surgical nurses
Captures academic, community, and private practice settings	Auditing to evaluate data reliability
Low financial requirement	Low disagreement rate between reviewers
Better captures plastic surgery–specific variables and outcomes	Captures more demographic data
Allows for additional modules and procedure-specific variables	Has expanded to include 8 additional specialties
Captures BREAST-Q scores	Completeness of data
	Vast number of surgical procedures