Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital is committed to transparent reporting of accurate and timely information regarding patient care and quality measures . Quality data can be complex . Various databases or registries use a variety of time frames for data compilation and calculate benchmarks using various methodologies . Together with physicians on the medical staff , the leadership for the hospital understands that potential referring physicians and healthcare consumers may use this information to help make informed decisions .
Registries , governmental databases and private benchmarking organizations are all taken into account when outcomes are reviewed . A sampling of the outcomes measures are included on these two pages along with the Infection Prevention and Safety plan key elements . Public reporting of healthcare quality data is available to the public with in-depth discussions about methodologies . Information can be found at :
• CMS via Hospital Compare ( HospitalCompare . hhs . gov )
Registries and data sources involved in citations for the fiscal year 2018 outcomes for heart and vascular data include :
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( CMS )
• Society for Thoracic Surgeons ( STS )
• Vascular Quality Initiative ( VQI )
• National Cardiovascular Database and Registry ( NCDR ® )
• Baylor Scott & White Quality and Healthcare Improvement
• Progress-CTO – Prospective Global Registry for the Study of Chronic Total Occlusion Intervention
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