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The Role of National Registries in Improving Quality of Care and Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease Cover

The Role of National Registries in Improving Quality of Care and Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease

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|Jul 2020

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Table 1.

Description of representative cardiovascular disease registries. LAAO: Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Registry; PCI: percutaneous coronary intervention; Afib: atrial fibrillation; TAVR: transcatheter aortic valve replacement; HCM: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; CVD: cardiovascular disease

REGISTRYGOVERNANCEDESCRIPTIONSIZE/RECORDSSUB-REGISTRIES
National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR)American College of CardiologyComposed of 10 registries: 8 inpatient/procedure based and 2 outpatient based> 2,400 hospitals and 8,500 providers with > 60 million patient recordsExamples include CathPCI, LAAO, Afib Ablation, and the Diabetes Collaborative Registry
Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) National DatabaseSociety of Thoracic SurgeonsClinical outcomes for patients who undergo cardiothoracic surgeryIncludes > 90% of adult cardiac surgical centers and > 6.9 million surgical casesExamples include Adult Cardiac Surgery Database, General Thoracic Surgery Database
Transcatheter Valve Therapy (TVT)Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of CardiologyFocused on patients who undergo transcatheter valve replacement and repair procedures such as TAVR> 650 sites reportingn/a
Get With The Guidelines (GWTG)American Heart AssociationReports patient outcomes on a number of cardiovascular conditions, such as stroke, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation> 2,000 hospitalsGWTG Stroke, GWTG Heart Failure, GWTG COVID-19 CVD Registry
Hospital CompareCenter for Medicare and Medicaid ServicesPublic reporting comparing hospitals based on overall star rating and certain quality measures> 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitalsn/a
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy RegistryUniversity of Virginia/University of OxfordIdentifies markers that predict development of complications in patients with HCM44 active sites; 2,750 patients enrolledn/a
Language: English
Page range: 205 - 211
Published on: Jul 1, 2020
Published by: Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

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