IMPACT Data Can Unleash Program Excellence - 2020 Quality Summit presentation (Non-CE)-IMPACT Data Can Unleash Program Excellence

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In this video, Dr. Nicole Sutton, a pediatric cardiologist, discusses the use of impact data to improve congenital heart disease programs. She explains that the Impact Registry, which stands for Improving Pediatric and Adult Congenital Treatment Registry, aims to improve patient care and promote quality improvement at participating institutions. The registry was approved by the council in 2007 and has since grown to include 106 centers and over 246,000 procedures. Dr. Sutton highlights the benefits of participation, such as access to ACC quality improvement programs, involvement in impact-specific quality improvement projects, and the ability to conduct research using the registry data. She also mentions that participation in the Impact Registry earns participants points in the US News and World Report section on quality improvement. Dr. Sutton goes on to discuss another registry called the National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative (NPCQIC) and the impact it had on reducing interstage mortality and improving growth failure rates. She explains that the NPCQIC used control charts and funnel plots to analyze the data and identify variations among centers. The collaborative then shared best practices and worked together to improve outcomes. Dr. Sutton concludes by discussing ways to leverage data from the Impact Registry, such as identifying sites that are performing well and learning from them, or identifying sites that are underperforming and working with them to improve. She also highlights the importance of sharing the data and the benefits of participating in the registry on a hospital level.

Keywords

Impact Registry

patient care

quality improvement

registry data

NPCQIC

interstage mortality

control charts

best practices