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Fiscal Year 2011 Annual Reports
October 1, 2010 – September 30, 2011 reports published: Adult Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Hospital Risk-Standardized 30-Day Mortality Rates and the Adult Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Hospital Risk-Standardized In-Hospital Mortality Rates are now available for download. Click the read more button to go directly to the report release page.
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PCI Aortic Stenosis Variable Update
The definition for the Mass-DAC PCI variable Aortic Stenosis Checked (ResTextP1), needed clarification for unknown values. The value 2-Unknown may be used in two situations, if It is unknown if aortic stenosis was checked, or if aortic stenosis is checked but the aortic stenosis is not documented, therefore is unknown.
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Nonemergency PCI at Hospitals with or without On-Site Cardiac Surgery
Alice K. Jacobs M.D., Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Ph.D., et al. – Background: Emergency surgery has become a rare event after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Whether having cardiac-surgery services available on-site is essential for ensuring the best possible outcomes during and after PCI remains uncertain.
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A Cardiac Conundrum
The March-April 2013 issue of the Harvard Magazine featured the article “A Cardiac Conundrum” written by Alice Park about David Jones’ new book, Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care (Johns Hopkins), published December 26, 2012. In her article, Park writes, During the twentieth century, heart disease began to climb from relative obscurity to its [...]
Public Outreach
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Mass-DAC's focus is on improving the quality of cardiac health in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the Public Outreach section, we provide information, in laymen's terms, about coronary artery disease, research on cardiac care issues, abstracts of public report key points, links to cardiac care publications, and links to authoritative educational resources at major hospitals and national organizations.
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Fiscal Year 2011 Annual Reports
Key Findings
Oct 1, 2010 - Sep 30, 2011, reports published:
Adult CABG Surgery Hospital Risk-Standardized 30-Day Mortality Rates and the Adult PCI Hospital Risk-Standardized In-Hospital Mortality Rates are now available for download. Choose Reports from the main menu or click the graphic above.
