The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database: 2016 Update on Research

Vinay Badhwar; J Scott Rankin; Jeffrey P Jacobs; David M Shahian; Robert H Habib; Richard S D'Agostino; Vinod H Thourani; Rakesh M Suri; Richard L Prager; Fred H Edwards

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.05.009

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database: 2016 Update on Research

Ann Thorac Surg. 2016 Jul;102(1):7-13. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.05.009. Epub 2016 Jun 2.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia. Electronic address: vinay.badhwar@wvumedicine.org.
² Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins All Children's Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital and Florida Hospital for Children, Saint Petersburg, Tampa, and Orlando, Florida; Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Department of Surgery and Center for Quality and Safety, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Research Center, Chicago, Illinois.
⁶ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts.
⁷ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁸ Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
¹⁰ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida.

PMID: 27262913
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.05.009

Abstract

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Database (ACSD) is an international voluntary effort that is the foundation of our specialty's efforts in clinical performance assessment and quality improvement. Containing nearly 6,000,000 patient records, the ACSD is a robust resource for clinical research. Seven major original publications and four review articles were generated from the ACSD in 2015. The risk-adjusted outcome analyses and quality measures reported in these studies have made substantial contributions to inform daily clinical practice. This report summarizes the ACSD-based research efforts published in 2015.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research*
Humans
Quality Improvement*
Societies, Medical*
Surgeons / education*
Thoracic Surgery / education*
Thoracic Surgical Procedures / standards*
United States