All Massachusetts hospitals that perform angioplasty or percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) must submit patient and physician specific data to Mass-DAC on a quarterly basis. Data will be collected by each hospital utilizing the American College of Cardiology (ACC) National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) Instrument. All data will be collected with no exclusions, including identifying demographic information on both patient and physician. Additional details on what is required instructions, and all forms needed can be downloaded from the Forms Download page.

Submission Instructions:

Data Submission Verification Form - (Updated September, 2011) Include this form with each data submission that you send to Mass-DAC. The updated form now reports the Exceptional Risk cases independent of the Compassionate Use cases, and a new Aortic Stenosis case line has been added.

Data Submission Manual - Compiled instructions for submitting version 4.3 data to Mass-DAC
    (Download manual and all forms in a zip file)

Data Submission Checklist - (Updated August 2, 2010) - Checklist of steps for version 4.3 data submissions

Mass-DAC Transfer Hospital Numbers - Data collection field list of hospital numbers used to identify transfers from and discharges to another acute care facility.

Data Submission Demographic File Specs - Provides details on how to structure the Mass-DAC demographic data as a delimited text file or as an XML file. The zip file contains the summary document for all extra fields required by Mass-DAC, the XML Schema definition for the Massachusetts demographic file, a sample XML data file, and a list of fields dropped from the version 3 file (no longer required in the version 4 file). These are based on the ACC 4.3 specifications.

Data Quality Report Summary - (Updated April 14, 2010) - Provides a summary of what each section table covers in the data quality report PDF file and the columns included in the Excel workbook.

Harvest Schedule
Download the PCI Submission Timeline (pdf) , which includes data submission harvest months, close-out months, and adjudication periods for each of the next several fiscal reporting years, or view individual details with the links below.