On March 4, 2010, Sharon-Lise Normand, Director of Mass-DAC, presented the findings of this year's annual reports for CABG and PCI to a joint group of 75 Massachusetts ACC and STS members.

Mass-DAC December 2010 Data Submission Harvest

Mass-DAC September 2010 Data Submission Harvest

"Outcomes Following Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Comparison Between Hospitals With and Without Cardiac Surgery On-Site" was accepted as a Late Breaking Clinical Trial abstract at the 2009 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Orlando. Authors include Ather Anis, Sharon-Lise Normand, Robert E. Wolf, Ann Lovett, Laura Mauri, Neal Patel, and Alice K. Jacobs.

Cardiac Surgery outcomes for adult cardiac patients in the UK have improved significantly since publication of information on death rates, research suggests.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8170618.stm

Research Proposals using the Cardiac Surgery Data

Proposals to use Mass-DAC data must be approved by the Massachusetts Cardiac Surgery Data Registry Publications Committee. Below are the links to the documents needed to begin the proposal process. The Manual of Operations describes the process all data requests must go through to be approved to use the Cardiac Surgery Mass-DAC data. Attachment A is the form that must be filled out and sent to Mass-DAC to start the review process. Send the completed form to mass-dac@hcp.med.harvard.edu for initial review and subsequent review by the other committees.

Manual of Operations for Research Proposals
Form- Proposal for Data Request - Attachment A

Defibrillator may not help many with heart failure
U. S. News & World Report as reported by Health Day, March 16, 2009 – By Ed Edelson
Defibrillators give little help to sicker patients
Reuters UK, March 16, 2009 – By Julie Steenhuysen
Implantable defibrillators, which protect against deadly heart rhythms, may offer little benefit for older people who have other serious health problems at the time of heart failure, U.S. researchers said. Leads author Dr. Soko Setoguchi, Harvard Medical School instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, discusses her team’s findings. The study appears in the recent issues of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/03/16/defibrilla...
http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNewsMolt/idUKTRE52F74720090316