Outcomes research refers to the measure of health care effectiveness such
as cost, health status, and disease burden. Our attention is directed
toward the patient and the patient’s perspective of personal wellness
after connecting with one of our providers. Outcomes research at Valley
View Hospital realizes the value of your experience is rooted in both
how well you feel as well as the emotional and physical expenses you have
endured. Our mission at Cardiovascular Innovations & Research Institute
(CIRI) is to deliver a value-based, positive outcome experience with our
comprehensive arrhythmia, thoracic and vascular care. Traveling a long
distance and incurring additional expenses associated with health care
travel is unnecessary when exceptional care is readily available in Western Colorado.
How Do We Know How Well You Are Doing After Your Heart Care?
It is simple; we stay in touch. The culture at Valley View Heart and Vascular
Center is that we continuously monitor how well you are doing, years after
you have been discharged from our hospital.
We appreciate your feedback. Our program is rooted in capturing the patient’s
perspective on quality of life and how well your health is managed specific
to your disease. We monitor these data points and have the ability to
compare this information to national benchmarks. We are interested in
the outcomes related to our health service delivery and how we rate compared
to top arrhythmia and cardiovascular programs in the world.
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers & Systems (HCAPS)
HCAPS is a survey-based program implemented and monitored by the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). This questionnaire is directed to all
patients that enter every acute care facility in the United States. Routinely,
our teams monitor feedback and adjust our health services based on your
experience and perspective of our care.
American College of Cardiology (ACC) National Cardiovascular Data Registries (NCDR)
The ACC maintains and publishes data on select hospital services. The ACC’s
public reporting website allows prospective patients to access data on
hospitals participating in their portfolio of registries. Thousands of
data elements are collected during select cardiovascular and arrhythmia
interventions, and this robust data is used to identify evidence-based
treatments with the most favorable outcomes. Valley View voluntarily allows
our data to be publicly reported to illustrate our commitment to quality
improvement and reducing treatment variations.
Find Your Heart A Home is the ACC’s free online tool that allows patients and caregivers
to search and compare hospitals by location and services. Hospital profile
pages reflect the same data registry site managers input into their NCDR
site profile.
The NCDR Registries in Which We Actively Participate:
A trusted source for outcomes-based, continuous quality improvement focused
exclusively on high risk heart attack patients. Newer versions of the
registry allow us to navigate patients who experience angina or chest
pain and benchmark against hospitals nationally. Moreover, the data collected
is shared with referring hospitals to ensure heart attack patients that
are sent to us from other acute centers are cared for in a timely manner.
The CathPCI Registry assess the characteristics treatment and outcomes
of cardiac disease who receive diagnostic and/or percutaneous coronary
interventions (PCI) also known as ballooning and stenting of coronary
arteries. This powerful tool captures the data that measures adherence
to ACC/American Heart Association clinical practice guideline recommendations,
procedure performance standards and appropriate use criteria for coronary
revascularization.
The Nexus Registry: The Whole Is Greater Than the Part.
The glue between CMS’s HCAPS data and the suite of ACC’s NCDR
data is our series of connections with a quality of life assessment, a
disease specific questionnaire and financial costs analysis. Over five
years ago, we realized the connection between the hospital’s procedural
and pharmacological data and the importance of the patient’s perspective
and incurred cost associated with a procedure or medicine. Combining the
power of robust national data with our own individual patient’s
perspectives allows us to use this information to direct care and to enable
our program to be the niche of heart care in Western Colorado.
National Clinical Trial Number:
Outcomes questions:
Does radial access or femoral access for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
(PCI) result in better patient outcomes?
Does the number of PCI procedures a hospital performs annually effect patient outcomes?
Does Robotic Assisted PCI affect patient outcomes?
Do electrophysiology interventions without 24 cardiovascular surgery backup
in a Hybrid Cath Lab impact patient outcomes?
Travel outside of Western Colorado for comprehensive heart arrhythmia,
thoracic or vascular care is unnecessary. Our team of teams deliver consistent,
standardized, evidence-based medicine to ensure patients receive the highest
quality and value-based care.
References: Jefford M, Stockler MR, Tattersall MH. Outcomes research: what is it and
why does it matter? Intern Med J. 2003;33(3):110–118.
The cardiovascular innovation & research institute team is offering
clinical trials and cutting-edge medical treatments to our community that
will transform valley view’s ability to save the lives.
