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G Rangé1, S Chassaing2, P Marcollet3
1Cardiology department, les hôpitaux de Chartres, BP 30407, 28018, Chartres, France.
Insights
A new computerized interventional cardiology registry offers a reliable and cost-effective method for collecting high-quality coronary patient data. This system ensures comprehensive data capture for improved patient care and prognosis assessment.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Health Informatics
- Clinical Data Management
Background:
- Rigorous clinical practice assessment is crucial for improving interventional cardiology (IC) prognosis.
- Prospective registries can enhance assessment but are often costly with variable data quality.
- The CRAC registry, integrated with existing software, was established in the French Centre Val-de-Loire region in 2014.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the reliability and cost-effectiveness of a computerized IC registry.
- To prospectively and systematically collect high-quality data for all consecutive coronary patients undergoing procedures.
- To establish a model for a national interventional cardiology database.
Main Methods:
- Quality assessment of the CRAC registry across five IC CathLabs in the CVL region (2014).
- Evaluation of data quality through procedure exhaustivity, completeness, and consistency checks.
- Estimation of the operating cost per procedure, including data collection and quality control.
Main Results:
- The CRAC registry demonstrated high data quality: 98.2% procedure completeness and 99.6% data completeness.
- Data consistency was achieved at 89%, with a low operating cost of €14.70 per procedure.
- The registry successfully captured pre-admission STEMI data and one-year follow-up information.
Conclusions:
- The integrated computerized IC registry provides an exhaustive, reliable, and cost-effective database for coronary patients.
- This model facilitates the development of a national IC database, France PCI, for coronary patients by 2020.
- The CRAC registry serves as a scalable solution for improving interventional cardiology data management nationwide.
Objectives:
To assess the reliability and low cost of a computerized interventional cardiology (IC) registry to prospectively and systematically collect high-quality data for all consecutive coronary patients referred for coronary angiogram or/and coronary angioplasty.
Background:
Rigorous clinical practice assessment is a key factor to improve prognosis in IC. A prospective and permanent registry could achieve this goal but, presumably, at high cost and low level of data quality. One multicentric IC registry (CRAC registry), fully integrated to usual coronary activity report software, started in the centre Val-de-Loire (CVL) French region in 2014.
Methods:
Quality assessment of CRAC registry was conducted on five IC CathLab of the CVL region, from January 1st to December 31st 2014. Quality of collected data was evaluated by measuring procedure exhaustivity (comparing with data from hospital information system), data completeness (quality controls) and data consistency (by checking complete medical charts as gold standard). Cost per procedure (global registry operating cost/number of collected procedures) was also estimated.
Results:
CRAC model provided a high-quality level with 98.2% procedure completeness, 99.6% data completeness and 89% data consistency. The operating cost per procedure was €14.70 ($16.51) for data collection and quality control, including ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) preadmission information and one-year follow-up after angioplasty.
Conclusions:
This integrated computerized IC registry led to the construction of an exhaustive, reliable and costless database, including all coronary patients entering in participating IC centers in the CVL region. This solution will be developed in other French regions, setting up a national IC database for coronary patients in 2020: France PCI.
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