Use of data registries to evaluate medical procedures. Coronary Artery Surgery Study and the Balloon Valvuloplasty Registry.
Large registries have been used by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to evaluate a number of medical procedures. Two of these, the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) and the Balloon Valvuloplasty Registry (BVR), are described to illustrate potential problems in using registry data to compare medical procedures.
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University of Washington.
D002404:Catheterization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D008722:Methods; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012042:Registries; D012107:Research Design; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D014481:United States