Research Proposals using the PCI Data

Proposals to use Mass-DAC data must be approved by the Massachusetts PCI 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 PCI 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

In the online edition of the Boston Globe, Hospital ratings complicate care of sickest, Liz Kowalczyk reports how the Massachusetts General Hospital rethinks when to do angioplasties.
http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/04/01/hospital_ratings_c...

The bi-monthly PCI Data Manager's meeting will be on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, from 10am to 2pm at St Elizabeth’s Medical Center. Please contact Ann Lovett if you are planning to attend.

Directions and final agenda will be posted closer to the actual meeting date on the Mass-DAC Community Forum's Meetings and Events Forum.

If you have not yet registered with Mass-DAC to access the forums, please click the register button upon entering the Community Forum home page, otherwise login to go directly to the meeting topic.

The next PCI data manger meeting will be at Lowell General Hospital, http://www.lowellgeneral.org/, in Lowell, on Wednesday, April 29, 2009, from 10am-2pm. Please e-mail Ann Lovett if you are planning to attend.

Directions and agenda will be posted on the Community Forum Meeting Topic about a week before the meeting. To access the forums, you must already have an account that was created by the Mass-DAC Data Manager.

Here is the link to the NCDR 2009 Agenda available on the American College of Cardiology web site.

Report, Officials monitor hospitals after deaths
http://www.necn.com/Boston/Health/2009/02/09/Officials-monitor-hospitals...

Article in The Boston Globe, Deaths lead to scrutiny of 2 heart units, State to watch MGH, Worcester hospital:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/02/09/death...

The direct link to the Fiscal Year 2007 Percutaneous Coronary Interventions report referred to in the article is available at
http://www.massdac.org/sites/default/files/reports/PCI FY2007.pdf

Mass-DAC List of Published Articles

The Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Cardiology (MCACC) Oversight Committee has set up guidelines to use for examining operators that are identified as having a statistically higher or lower than expected mortality (also referred to as an outlier) in the annual reports. Please download the attachment below for full details.