Development of the MAGIC congenital heart disease catheterization database for interventional outcome studies.
Development of the MAGIC congenital heart disease catheterization database for interventional outcome studies.
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1540-8183.2006.00128.x
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发表时间:
2006-04-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Lim, D Scott
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作者:
Everett, Allen D;Ringel, Richard;Lim, D Scott
As the field of catheter-based therapies for congenital heart disease continues to expand, we lack the evidence-based data to make appropriate therapeutic decisions in the catheterization laboratory. A stumbling block to the determination of evidence-based therapies is our inability to simply and reliably share outcome data across multiple centers. We investigated whether a commonly used congenital heart disease catheterization database program (PedCath) could be used as an automatic catheterization data submission tool to a central database for outcome analysis. To test the feasibility of such a tool for collaborative outcomes research we formed a national group of seven congenital heart disease centers, the Mid-Atlantic Group of Interventional Cardiology, to warehouse and analyze catheterization data. We successfully modified PedCath to transfer the results of catheter-based therapies on 256 therapeutic procedures for atrial septal defect (ASD) closure, coarctation of the aorta angioplasty and stenting, and pulmonary and aortic balloon valvuloplasties over a 13-month pilot period. Short-term follow-up within the 13-month period was received on 31 patients. This study demonstrated the successful development of a simple process, requiring minimal data entry for investigators from around the world to share cardiac catheterization data for long-term outcome determination of catheter-based therapies for congenital heart disease.