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Save the Date for NCDR.12
Join your fellow NCDR participants for two days of intensive registry-centered education on March 21 and 22, 2012 in Chicago. Please note, the dates originally announced were March 22 and 23, 2011. Registration for the meeting will open in October!
| Again in 2012, your hospital will receive one complimentary registration for each NCDR registry you join or renew for 2012. A promotional code for your complimentary registration will be provided by email when registration opens. |
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Do you have a registry success story that you would like to showcase during the meeting? All NCDR participants are invited to submit ideas for posters that illustrate real-life successes in process innovation, quality improvement initiatives or research activities related to NCDR participation. Helping attendees to share and learn from best practices, poster presentations are a vital part of the annual meeting experience each year.
Watch for more details about NCDR.12 to be posted online at www.ncdr.com/annualmeeting this fall.
NCDR® Launches New Dashboard for CathPCI Registry® — Other Registries to Follow
In mid-September, CathPCI Registry users will have new information at their fingertips when they log into the NCDR website. The NCDR is launching a new online portal as part of an ongoing effort to provide meaningful data, improve cardiovascular care and deliver value to our users. Once the update is launched, CathPCI Registry users will be able to log into www.ncdr.com/cathpci and review their Institutional Outcomes Reports and Data Quality Reports (DQR) on a newly designed webpage. This new online portal — called the “Dashboard” — will provide access to on-demand “eReports” in which users can drill down to the patient level within the Executive Summary Metrics. In addition, the “Comparator” feature will give participants the ability to create their own facility comparison groups for the Executive Summary Metrics. The NCDR expects to release the Dashboard for other registries in the near future.
CathPCI Registry users — plan to attend an instructional webinar on all the features of the new Dashboard on Thursday, September 15, 2011 from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Eastern. For participation information, please log into the CathPCI Registry homepage.
Impressive Improvements in D2B Times Highlighted
Findings from a paper recently published in Circulation highlight impressive advancements in the timeliness of treatment of STEMI patients who undergo primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The study, the first national assessment of trends in door-to-balloon (D2B) times, shows that great progress is being made by U.S. hospitals.
Recently, ACC President David Holmes, Jr., MD, FACC and Alfred A. Bove, MD, PhD, MACC discussed these improvements and the systems used to track D2B times. Click here to watch the video. A free subscription to CardioSource is required. Visit CardioSource.org/login to register for a free account.
Click here to read a recent ACC in Touch Blog by the paper’s lead author, Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM, FACC. For more information about the D2B: Sustain the Gain initiative, read about the upcoming webinar below or visit www.d2balliance.org.
Recently Published NCDR Research
With a constantly growing database of information on patients and procedures, the NCDR is increasingly being called upon to provide answers to some of the most timely health care delivery and clinical questions.
To date, 130 manuscripts based on NCDR data have been published in peer reviewed journals. Thirty-two of these have been selected for publication in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) and seven have been selected for publication in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“These impressive numbers are something every NCDR participant should be proud of,” said Kathleen Hewitt, MSN, RN, CPHQ, Associate Vice President, NCDR. “The hospitals and staff that make up the NCDR community are working hard every day to measure and improve care within their facility. On a larger scale, data collected provide answers and solutions that affect patients worldwide.”
Below is a list of the most recently published papers. A free subscription to CardioSource.org is required to view many of the links below. Everyone is welcome to become a member of the CardioSource Community and signing up is easy. Visit CardioSource.org/Login to register for a free account.
CathPCI Registry®
Hospital Variability in the Rate of Finding Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease at Elective, Diagnostic Coronary Angiography, JACC
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Native Arteries vs. Bypass Grafts in Prior Coronary Bypass Grafting Patients: A Report from the CathPCI Registry®, JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
ICD Registry™
Dual Chamber ICD Selection is Associated with Increased Complication Rates and Mortality Among Patients Enrolled in the NCDR® ICD Registry™, JACC
PINNACLE Registry®
Practice-Level Variation in Warfarin Use Among Outpatients With Atrial Fibrillation (from the NCDR® PINNACLE Registry®), American Journal of Cardiology
Registry Review
Leapfrog Group Names CathPCI Registry As Preferred Data Source for PCI Outcome Reporting
The Leapfrog Group recently named the CathPCI Registry as their preferred data source for PCI outcome reporting. A voluntary program, the Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Survey aims to encourage health providers to publicly report their quality and outcomes so that consumers and purchasing organizations can make informed health care choices. By selecting the CathPCI Registry as a preferred data source, Leapfrog Group can ensure that the data collected will be more consistent. To learn more about the Leapfrog Group's annual hospital survey, visit https://www.leapfroghospitalsurvey.org.
The CathPCI Registry is a nationwide registry that captures data on cardiac catheterization and PCI procedures, helping participating hospitals identify quality gaps and implement new processes to improve patient care. The registry provides the tools to help hospitals reduce door-to-balloon time, decrease vascular groin complications, increase guideline compliance, and more. For more information about the CathPCI Registry, visit www.ncdr.com/cathpci.
Related Quality News
Webinar Series: Advancing the Business of Cardiovascular Care
The American College of Cardiology’s PINNACLE Network™ and Paragon Health are presenting a FREE six-part webinar series focused on advancing the business of cardiovascular care.
The webinars feature key health care and physician leaders addressing hot topics related to the evolving models of cardiovascular care in today’s practice setting. Whether you are staying in private practice, or are fully or partially integrated with a hospital system, this series is for you.
Don’t miss this timely series! Each installment covers a different key issue, providing valuable information to help keep you up to speed. Click here for a list of the five remaining webinars and to register.
D2B: Sustain the Gain — September Webinar
Thursday, September 29, 2011
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Eastern
Please join the D2B: Sustain the Gain initiative for “How Door-In to Door-Out Times Impact Outcomes for Primary PCI’s,” presented by Tracy Wang, MD, MHS, MS and Lisa Monk, RN, MSN, CPHQ.
Dial in: (866) 244-4637 (If you need assistance during the live event, please press star then zero on your touch-tone phone (*0) once you have joined the audio conference.)
Participation Link: Click here to participate in the webinar
HOS to Hold Webinar on Appropriate Use Criteria
As medical societies evolve towards self-scrutiny and establish criteria for the appropriate use of treatments and the federal government and private health insurers collectively strive to contain costs, the need for evidence-based management of risk becomes more pronounced.
For example, the increasing prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) and the costs of revascularization procedures have resulted in heightened interest among clinicians, payers and patients as to the appropriateness of PCI.
Developed by the American College of Cardiology (ACC), Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, American Heart Association (AHA), and other national societies, the Appropriate Use Criteria for Coronary Revascularization is the result of an unprecedented collaborative effort to help ensure higher quality cardiovascular care by providing the first-ever basis for evaluating clinical decision-making.
Kansas City-based Health Outcomes Sciences (HOS), through its exclusive relationship with the ACC, offers the only clinical risk modeling solution to embed the Appropriate Use Model delivered to clinicians at the point of care. Through the company’s ePRISM® product, the complex algorithmic process of classifying an individual patient’s appropriateness for PCI and generating those results at the point of care, is available when and where it matters most.
Learn more by participating in an HOS webinar on Tuesday, September 20 at 12:00 p.m Central/1:00 p.m. Eastern.
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This Issue:
Save the Date for NCDR.12
NCDR Launches New Dashboard for CathPCI Registry — Other Registries to Follow
Impressive Improvements in D2B Times Highlighted
Recently Published NCDR Research
Leapfrog Group Names CathPCI Registry As Preferred Data Source for PCI Outcome Reporting
Webinar Series: Advancing the Business of Cardiovascular Care
D2B: Sustain the Gain — September Webinar
HOS to Hold Webinar on Appropriate Use Criteria
NCDR in the News:
Improvements in D2B Times, CardioSouce Video News
Previous Issues of News and Views
July/August, 2011
June, 2011
May, 2011
Calendar:
CathPCI Registry Site Manager Call
Thursday, September 15, 2011
1:00 p.m. Eastern
ICD Registry Site Manager Call
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
1:00 p.m. Eastern
ACTION Registry-GWTG Site Manager Call
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
1:00 p.m. Eastern
D2B: Sustain the Gain September Webinar
Thursday, September 29
12:00 p.m. Eastern
CARE Registry RSM/New User Call
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
1:00 p.m. Eastern
IMPACT Registry RSM/New User Call
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
1:00 p.m. Eastern
ACTION Registry-GWTG New User Call
Thursday, November 10, 2011
1:00 p.m. Eastern
CathPCI Registry New User Call
Thursday, December 1, 2011
1:00 p.m. Eastern
ICD Registry New User Call
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
1:00 p.m. Eastern
NCDR Archived Webinars:
ACTION Registry–GWTG Outcomes Reports – Basic Navigation (new participants) New
ACTION Registry–GWTG 2011 Outcomes Reports Enhancements New
The Importance of Getting Green
NCDR Systems Alerts Review: ICD Registry, CathPCI Registry, IMPACT Registry, ACTION Registry-GWTG
ACTION Registry–GWTG Updates V2.2
ACTION Registry–GWTG Website Navigation
ACTION Registry-GWTG Completing the Online Data Collection Tool: Session 1 & 2
CARE Registry Website Navigation
CathPCI Registry Case Study V4.3
CathPCI Registry Website Navigation
CathPCI Registry DQRI Process
ICD Registry Data Quality Review (DQR) Process V2.1
ICD Registry Data Collection Tool V2.1
ICD Registry Navigation Support
IMPACT Registry Version 1.0 Website Navigation
IMPACT Registry Version 1.0: Data Collection Form and Definitions Part I, II & II
To access recorded webinars, login here. Choose a registry home page and click on Resources.
NCDR Registries:
NCDR® is an initiative of the American College of Cardiology Foundation®, with partnering support from the following organizations: CARE Registry®-The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Interventional Radiology, American Academy of Neurology, American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Society for Vascular Medicine, and Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology; CathPCI Registry®-The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions; ICD Registry™-Heart Rhythm Society; IMPACT Registry™-The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions and American Academy of Pediatrics; PINNACLE Registry™-MedAxiom and Spirit of Women; ACTION Registry®-GWTG™- An initiative of the American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Heart Association, with partnering support from Society of Chest Pain Centers, The American College of Emergency Physicians, and The Society of Hospital Medicine.
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