The
5th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular
Disease and Stroke and the 2nd Scientific Conference on Compliance
in Healthcare and Research, sponsored by the American Heart Association,
will be held in Washington, D.C., May 15- 17, 2004. The abstract submission
deadline is January 26, 2004. Go to scientificconferences@heart.org
for further information.
Effective
October 1, 2003, Mass-DAC will collect cardiac surgery data twice
a year (March and September). See the Revised Data Harvest Schedule
below:
Revised Data Harvesting Schedule
Harvest
Dates (The
dates on which the data submission for the quarter will begin)
CABG
Dates of Surgery
9/01/02
1/01/02
- 3/31/02
12/01/02
4/01/02 - 9/30/02
3/01/03
10/01/02 - 12/31/02
6/01/03
1/01/03 - 3/31/03
9/01/03
4/01/03
- 6/30/03
Revised
Harvest Schedule
CABG
Dates of Surgery
3/01/04
7/01/03
- 9/30/03
10/01/03 -12/31/03
9/01/04*
1/01/04
- 3/31/04*
4/01/04 - 6/30/04*
3/01/05
7/01/04
- 9/30/04
10/01/04 -12/31/04
9/01/05
1/01/05
- 3/31/05
4/01/05 - 6/30/05
3/01/06
7/01/05
- 9/30/05
10/01/05 - 12/31/05
*Six-month
submissions should be submitted as one zipped file unless it occurs
during the 6 months (January 1, 2004 to June 30, 2004) that the STS
instrument and software are being upgraded for the version changes.
For those 6 months, each quarter of data must be submitted as two
separate files to insure that each quarter will be submitted on only
one version of the STS instrument.
Mass-DAC
will be revising the Data Quality Reports after receiving feedback
at the Data Manager’s meeting to make them easier to utilize.
We hope to have a new report by March.
STS Definition/Coding Responses: Question: Acute graft closures are being treated
with PTCA and/or Stent placements. Do we code the postoperative complication
re-op for acute graft closure as yes when the graft closure is treated
with PTCA?
STS
Response: Only when the patient returns to the OR to have
these procedures done would you capture it under re-op for acute graft
closure.
Question:
How do we code gore-tex grafts?
STS
response: A gore-tex graft cannot be coded. You can customize
a field to track this type of graft at your institution, such as "conduit:
other".
Another
STS response to the gore-tex question: If the proximal portion of the conduit was arterial or venous,
capture this particular conduit based on what the proximal portion
was. If the conduit harvested was not long enough or was damaged so
they needed to extend the length of the conduit with a graft, capture
this particular conduit based on what the proximal portion was.
