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Penetration, Completeness, and Representativeness of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975%2815%2901416-2/abstract

Author(s)

Jeffrey P. Jacobs, David M. Shahian, Xia He, Sean M. O’Brien, Vinay Badhwar, Joseph C. Cleveland Jr., Anthony P. Furnary, Mitchell J. Magee, Paul A. Kurlansky, J. Scott Rankin, Karl F. Welke, Giovanni Filardo, Rachel S. Dokholyan, Eric D. Peterson, J. Matthew Brennan, Jane M. Han, Donna McDonald, DeLaine Schmitz, Fred H. Edwards, Richard L. Prager, Frederick L. Grover

With the successful linking of the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) database, the authors studied the extent to which the STS database represents national activity in CABG. The number of centers represented increased from 45% in 2000 to 90% in 2012. The number of CABG patients represented increased from 51% to 94% during the same period. The number of CABG patients operated on at STS sites and registered in the STS database increased from 88% to 98%.