Welcome to this series of instructional videos directed toward onboarding education for our NCDR international community. The content in this lesson was developed by John Jarratt and myself. I'm David Bonner, and I'll be narrating this lesson. In Step 8, you'll need to make sure you're reviewing the call for data schedule to make sure all data is submitted by the data deadline posted. The call for data deadline is the final date and time for which data can be submitted to NCDR in order to be included in the Institutional Outcomes Reports as well as Benchmark Reporting for a defined quarter. The deadline always occurs at 1159.59 p.m. Eastern Time. As a special note, data submitted after the posted deadline will be eligible for display in the next published Benchmark Report. The call for data schedule is located at ncdr.com under Data and Call for Data Schedule. Step 9 allows you to review and process the results of your hard work. Registry metrics and benchmarks are completed with green status aggregations and populate our registry dashboards with close-to-real-time data as well as provide on-demand reporting options for certain registries. Specific benchmark reporting options are available for some registries based on rolling for quarter processes. A benchmark is a point of reference against which hospital metrics are compared to volume group aggregates and total registry aggregates with passing statuses. Benchmark comparisons are available in the NCDR dashboards as well as in the registry-specific Institutional Outcomes Reports. Benchmark reports provide a quarterly or on-demand detailed analysis of hospital performance in relation to a specific facility, like volume comparison groups, or the entire NCDR registry aggregate population. The NCDR dashboard is a centralized location providing users an analytical, streamlined tool to access your hospital's metric performance online. Features include at-a-glance view of your hospital's executive summary metric performance with the ability to drill down to view the patient-level detail report. It also provides the ability to trend facilities' metric performance in relation to the registry-wide 50th percentile performance. The ability to perform comparative and trend analysis to a subset of registry hospitals with a comparative tool provides additional reports such as outcomes and public reporting. Benchmarking reports give insight into care variations and quality improvement opportunities and provide the opportunity to compare hospital practice patterns. Benchmark data is organized into a rolling four-quarter time frame, which helps define the dated content of outcomes reports and dashboard reporting. Each quarter of data is sorted by discharge date. R4Q refers to the most recent data quarter and the three quarters prior. As new data is sorted by quarter and added to the reporting cycle, the oldest data quarter will drop off of reporting. Continuous cycle creates a rolling four quarters. Registry metrics allow you to review and process the results of your hard work. Registry metrics and benchmarks are completed with green status aggregations and populate our registry dashboards with close-to-real-time data as well as provide on-demand reporting options for certain registries. Metric benchmark reporting options are available for some registries based on a rolling four quarter process. The dashboard is a centralized location providing users an analytical, streamlined tool to access your hospital's metric performance online. Features include at-a-glance view of your hospital's executive summary metric performance with the ability to drill down to view the patient-level detail report. For more information about our NCDR dashboard products, please be sure to navigate to our QII Learning Center and look for our dashboard lessons. Step 10. With diligence and determination combined with teamwork, you'll complete this 10-step process by reviewing your outcomes and benchmark reporting via our registry dashboards and outcome reporting, implementing our mission of improving patient care and heart health through trusted, real-world evidence, and our vision of advancing patient care outcomes and value through knowledge and innovation, you can utilize your data to initiate opportunities to implement process improvement, quality improvement, and ultimately improve patient care and outcomes. Now, let's take a moment to dive a little deeper into these steps to learn what information may be helpful to you as an international participant. This concludes our lesson, and thank you for your participation.

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