KGP: General secreterary of the Swedish Renal Registry with operative responsibility for the validity of the Registry's data, providing intellectual content of critical importance.
After review of the literature and the current registries, the set of operative indications used by the Swespine Registry (Strömqvist et al. 2013) was felt to be the most complete yet concise example of such a list, and was chosen for inclusion in the standard set, to be completed by providers at the time of surgery (Table 3).
We believe that an optimal hip fracture registry would include operative details including implant type and information about possible reoperations.
To achieve this aim, we compared procedure assignments based on Medicare claims with the type of surgery specified in SEER registry data and clinical operative reports.
Potential cases were then confirmed by centralised review of pathology reports, discharge summaries, operative and radiology reports, and tumour registry abstracts by trained medical adjudicators.
Once the operation is completed, the operative report containing the procedure and clinical data is entered in the Registry.
Limitations are that we could not verify the registry-stated indication for operative delivery, and we did not have information on the severity and timing of complications indicating operative delivery.
For the NHFR, after each operation, patient data and operative data are filled in by the surgeon on a standard one-page form and sent to the registry.
OBJECTIVES: This study compared survival after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with survival after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) among diabetics in the Veterans Affairs AWESOME (Angina With Extremely Serious Operative Mortality Evaluation) study randomized trial and registry of high-risk patients.
Armed with two decades of detailed outcome and case-mix data from the national registry, the payor developed a reimbursement model that packaged pre-operative, operative, and early post-operative care into a single price with a two-year warranty (five years if an infection was found in the first two years).
