What's New for the National Databases?

• The STS National Database has recently received funding from the FDA to assist in a detailed post-market surveillance of transmyocardial revascularization laser treatment (TMR) through development of a device registry. (More information).
  
  
• Read the memo and accompanying documents from the new National Database Definition Subcommittee regarding the clarification of database definitions.
  
  
• Check the updated list of certified vendors .
  
  
• Read the important year end status report for STS National Database participants.
  
  
• STS awarded nearly $1.5 million by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) for research supporting a first-ever national initiative to improve the quality of heart bypass surgery in the United States.
  
  
• New Adult Cardiac Data Form incorporating Core data elements.
  
  
• Latest STS Specifications (Version 2.35) for Adult Cardiac Surgery Database:
  1. Core Data Elements - Summary (121 KB PDF file).
  2. Core Data Elements - Full Specifications (518 KB PDF file).
  3. Explanation of Terms used in the specifications (18 KB PDF file).
  4. Software Specifications describe requirements for software to become STS-certified. (30 KB PDF file)
     
     
  
  
• Reorganization of Adult Cardiac Database to simplify it, improve data quality, and enhance usability (slide show from 3rd Data Managers' Meeting 1/24/99).
  
  
• New national data warehouse and analysis center at Duke Clinical Research Institute.
  
  
• Converting your data (see slide show from 3rd Data Managers' Meeting 1/24/99).