Epworth hospital interventional cardiology report, 2002

In March 2001, the Victorian Heart Centre at Epworth Hospital implemented a database management system to improve the standard of data collection and analysis of procedures performed in our catheter laboratory. A retrospective analysis of procedures undertaken during 2000, together with prospective data collected during 2001/2002, has enabled us to achieve our goals of benchmarking performance and undertaking research on the outcomes of interventional cardiology procedures at Epworth. The figures reported in this year's cardiac catheterisation laboratory audit report confirm a continued high standard performance in our laboratory.