title: The National Cardiovascular Data Registry Voluntary Public Reporting Program: An Interim Report From the NCDR Public Reporting Advisory Group.
abstract: Public reporting of health care data continues to proliferate as consumers and other stakeholders seek information on the quality and outcomes of care. Medicare's Hospital Compare website, the U.S. News & World Report hospital rankings, and several state-level programs are well known. Many rely heavily on administrative data as a surrogate to reflect clinical reality. Clinical data are traditionally more difficult and costly to collect, but more accurately reflect patients' clinical status, thus enhancing the validity of quality metrics. We describe the public reporting effort being launched by the American College of Cardiology and partnering professional organizations using clinical data from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) programs. This hospital-level voluntary effort will initially report process of care measures from the percutaneous coronary intervention (CathPCI) and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) registries of the NCDR. Over time, additional process, outcomes, and composite performance metrics will be reported.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Baylor Scott & White Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Temple, Texas. Electronic address: gdehmer@sw.org.
authors.forename: Gregory J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Dehmer
authors.affiliation: Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, Tennessee.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jennings
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing Section, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
authors.forename: Ruth A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Madden
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Division, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Malenka
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Division, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, Colorado.
authors.forename: Frederick A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Masoudi
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California.
authors.forename: Charles R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: McKay
authors.affiliation: National Partnership for Women and Families, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Debra L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Ness
authors.affiliation: The Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Sunil V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Division, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Burlington, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Frederic S
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Resnic
authors.affiliation: Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane, Washington.
authors.forename: Michael E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Ring
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Section, Denver VA Medical Center, Denver, Colorado.
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Rumsfeld
authors.affiliation: Prairie Cardiovascular, Springfield, Illinois.
authors.forename: Marc E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Shelton
authors.affiliation: American College of Cardiology, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Simanowith
authors.affiliation: American College of Cardiology, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Lara E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Slattery
authors.affiliation: Christiana Care Health Services, Center for Heart & Vascular Health, Newark, Delaware.
authors.forename: William S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Weintraub
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lovett
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Sharon-Lise
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Normand
mesh_terms: D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000592:standards*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D058996:Quality Improvement; D012042:Registries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States
keywords: health care reform; outcomes; quality