Data Collection

  • Designed to improve quality of care and outcomes and reduce practice variation across the specialties that perform these procedures
  • Overcomes the barriers of traditional market and academic competition
  • Collects, audits, and organizes data – reports procedural variables and outcomes to individual operators and institutions
    • Computed using R to facilitate the inclusion of statistical parameters – includes graphics
    • Formatted using LaTeX
    • Report specifications –available on the website – detail all parameters and calculations
    • Report types:
      • Quarterly/YTD Discharge Reports – Collaborative, hospital and physician level reports detailing patient history, procedural variables, and outcomes prior to discharge
      • Quarterly/YTD Morbidity and Mortality Reports – Detailed major outcomes for each hospital & physician
      • Dashboard Report – Detailed outcomes to 30 days, patient variables, and comprehensive procedure details related to MI, transfusion, & surgical site infection
      • 30 Day Follow-up Report – Detailed information post discharge related to outcomes, and medications
      • 1 Year Follow-up Report – Detailed information post discharge related to outcomes, and medications

Data collected

  • Patient Information
  • Labs
  • Medical History
  • Presenting Symptoms
  • Prior Surgical Procedures
  • Prior Vascular Intervention
  • Medications (Admission and Discharge)
  • Procedural Information
  • Outcomes During Procedure
  • Outcomes Prior to Discharge
  • Follow-up at 30 days and 1 year
    • Living Status
    • Medications
    • Smoking Status
    • Outcomes