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Basic Information
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UNKNOWN
120000 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2000-04-30
2017-03-31
Brief Summary
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The Congenital Heart Disease audit collects data on all cardiac surgery and therapeutic cardiac catheterisations procedures used to treat patients with congenital and acquired heart disease.
For acquired heart disease, the audit covers all arrhythmias \& cardiomyopathies in patients less than 16 years old only. For congenital heart disease, the audit collects data on both children and adult patients. The audit covers all specialist centers in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
The project aims to improve the quality of care for children and adults with congenital heart disease by providing national comparative analysis of procedure specific activity and outcomes of cardiac surgery and therapeutic cardiac catheterisation procedures. The audit also provides quality indicators for the antenatal detection of major congenital heart disease.
The current dataset is available from here:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/nicor/audits/congenital/datasets
Detailed Description
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Data collection:
Hospitals use Patient Administration Systems and manual data entry by cardiac database managers to submit data to NICOR.
Data are either assimilated locally using third party commercial software and imported as a .csv file, or entered directly onto the NICOR database.
Data quality:
NICOR provide tools that communicate possible errors to centres submitting data. A data submitting schedule has been agreed with the centres, data is submitted and a validation report is returned each quarter. Centres are responsible for updating errors in the records.
An import log highlights missing and invalid data as well as records that failed to import due to data quality or compatibility issues.
In addition, data is validated by on site visits with a NICOR representative.
Data linkage:
Data is annually linked with Office fot National Statistics (ONS) life status and Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) admission data to verify case ascertainment and to track long term outcome measures.
Information governance:
NICOR has Section 251 approval and data protection registration. An organisation-wide standard operating procedure is in place for Information Security Incident Management. University College London has a robust information governance framework, to which NICOR adheres.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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COHORT
PROSPECTIVE
Study Groups
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Congenital
All patients with congential and acquired heart disease treated by cardiac surgery and therapeutic cardiac catheterisations procedures .
For acquired heart disease, the audit covers all arrhythmias \& cardiomyopathies in patients less than 16 years old only.
For congenital heart disease, the audit collects data on both children and adult patients.
Cardiac Surgery
All patients with congential and acquired heart disease treated by cardiac surgery procedures.
Therapeutic cardiac catheterisations procedures
All patients with congential and acquired heart disease treated by therapeutic cardiac catheterisations procedures .
Interventions
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Cardiac Surgery
All patients with congential and acquired heart disease treated by cardiac surgery procedures.
Therapeutic cardiac catheterisations procedures
All patients with congential and acquired heart disease treated by therapeutic cardiac catheterisations procedures .
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain & Ireland
UNKNOWN
British Congenital Cardiac Association
UNKNOWN
University College, London
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Rodney Franklin, MD
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
Locations
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Southampton General Hospital
Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Royal Brompton Hospital
London, London, United Kingdom
The Harley Street Clinic
London, London, United Kingdom
Alder Hey Hospital
Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Leeds General Infirmary
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Edgbaston)
Birmingham, , United Kingdom
The Heart Hospital
London, , United Kingdom
Countries
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Central Contacts
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References
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Pagel C, Utley M, Crowe S, Witter T, Anderson D, Samson R, McLean A, Banks V, Tsang V, Brown K. Real time monitoring of risk-adjusted paediatric cardiac surgery outcomes using variable life-adjusted display: implementation in three UK centres. Heart. 2013 Oct;99(19):1445-50. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-303671. Epub 2013 Apr 5.
Other Identifiers
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NICOR-CONGENITAL
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id