Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD Registry)
American College of Cardiology
Summary
The ICD Registry™ is a nationwide quality program that helps participating hospitals measure and improve care for patients receiving implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy devices with defibrillator (CRT-Ds). The ICD Registry captures the characteristics, treatments, and outcomes of patients receiving (ICDs). Patient-level data is submitted by participating hospitals on a quarterly basis to the American College of Cardiology Foundation's (ACCF) National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) which then produces an Outcomes Report of the hospital's data, with comparison to both a volume peer group (number of ICD patients submitted annually) and the entire ICD registry data set.
Description
In January 2005 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded the covered indications for primary prevention implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) to incorporate the findings from the Sudden Cardiac Death Heart Failure Trial (SCDHeFT) and the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial II (MADIT II). As part of this expansion, CMS mandated that a national registry be formed to compile data on Medicare patients implanted with primary prevention ICDs to confirm the appropriateness of ICD utilization in this patient population. Responding to this mandate, a co…
Eligibility
- Age range
- Not specified
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
All U.S and International patients. Inclusion Criteria: * All patients who receive an ICD/CRT-D (initial or generator change) for primary or secondary prevention purposes. * All patients with an ICD/CRT-D undergoing a Lead Only procedure. * U.S. populations must submit all patients who receive an ICD/CRT-D (initial or generator change) for primary prevention purposes who are insured by Medicare. Exclusion Criteria: None
Location
- American College of Cardiology/National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR)Washington D.C., District of Columbia