Important First Steps and Useful Information-Terminology

Terminology

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The document is an NCDR Terminology Guide that translates common registry terms into plain language for participants involved in data collection, submission, validation, and reporting. It emphasizes that registry-specific data dictionaries, program requirements, and coding instructions remain the official sources for operational decisions.

Key areas covered include:

- <strong>Websites and support roles:</strong> It defines ACC.org, CardioSmart.org, and CVQuality.ACC.org, and explains support contacts such as the Customer Support Team, Clinical Quality Advisor (CQA), and NCDR Program Director.
- <strong>Data collection and submission:</strong> It explains terms like Data Collection Form (DCF), Data Collection Tool (DCT), certified software vendor, data deadline, data extract, data migration, data element dictionary, patient demographic interoperability, Participant ID (PID), base submission, and follow-up submission.
- <strong>Data quality and performance reporting:</strong> It defines Quality Check (QC), Data Quality Report (DQR), threshold, outlier, benchmark, Performance Dashboard, Metric Results and Executive Summary, outcomes report, metric, performance measure, and rolling four quarters (R4Q).
- <strong>Governance, privacy, and participant roles:</strong> It covers National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR), National Coverage Determination (NCD), Direct patient identifiers (DPI), Protected Health Information (PHI), Privacy Officer, and Registry Site Manager (RSM).

The guide is meant to help both new and experienced users quickly understand terminology and use the correct NCDR resources. It also notes that product names, schedules, and system labels can change, so time-sensitive details should always be confirmed in current registry resources.

Keywords

NCDR

registry terminology

data collection

data submission

data quality

performance reporting

participant ID

protected health information

quality check

registry governance