About CV Outcomes, Inc.
Background and History
Founded in March 2002, Cardiovascular Outcomes, Inc. (CV Outcomes) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to the advancement of outcomes research and quality assessment/improvement in cardiovascular disease. CV Outcomes serves as the administrative coordinator for the Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC).
Founded in February 2001, CORC is a national group of leaders in cardiovascular outcomes research who collaboratively conduct studies in the methodology of outcomes assessment and quality improvement. Institutions include
- The Mid America Heart Institute and the University of Missouri at Kansas City
- Yale University
- Harvard University
- Duke University
- Emory University
- Case-Western Reserve University
- Stanford University
- University of Colorado
- University of Alberta
- Northwestern University
- University of Iowa
- and numerous other sites on a project-by-project basis
The first CORC project enrolled 547 CHF patients from 13 centers into an outpatient cohort study to determine the minimal clinically important change in score on the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire. A second CORC project is the PREMIER QI Registry, a 12-center effort to prospectively track the outcomes (including health status) of patients recovering from an acute myocardial infarction.
CV Outcomes has also entered into a partnership with the American College of Cardiology for two of its three Guidelines Applied to Practice (GAP) projects. These demonstration projects in Chronic Stable Angina (based in Alabama) and Congestive Heart Failure (based in Oregon) will define the patient-centered advantages of optimal medical care by quantifying changes in patients’ health status with the Seattle Angina Questionnaire and the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire.
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CV Outcomes Launches National Post-MI Registry - The PREMIER QI Registry
CV Outcomes Launches National Post-MI Registry - The PREMIER QI Registry
02 October 2002 - 09:33
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CV Outcomes, with generous support from CV Therapeutics, is launching a multi-center post-MI registry to define the prevalence, determinants and consequences of post-MI angina and to advance the methods for quantifying the quality of MI care.
The Prospective Registry Evaluating outcomes after Myocardial Infarction: Events and Recovery Quality Improvent (PREMIER-QI) Registry will consecutively enroll 2,500 patients from 18 cardiovascular centers and follow them at 1, 6 and 12 months for their clinical outcomes. Careful quantification of patients’ symptoms, function and quality of life will supplement traditional clinical outcomes. Furthermore, characteristics of patients’ care both in and out of the hospital will be defined to better understand the determinants of patient-centered, post-MI outcomes. By carefully defining the determinants of outcome, this registry will provide the methodological data necessary to transform the assessment of health care quality from a solely process-based assessment of performance to an outcomes-based process of quantifying `how patients are doing’ after treatment. The 18 Centers of Excellence participating in this study can be found in the Topiocs Section of this website
Seattle Angina Questionnaire and Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire Demos Now Av...
Seattle Angina Questionnaire and Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire Demos Now Available
07 June 2002 - 16:49
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Interactive demo versions of the Seattle Angina Questionnaire and Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire can now be accessed in the Instruments section of the CVOutcomes site.
These instruments are disease-specific quality-of-life measures developed and validated by John Spertus. Traditionally completed using paper forms, our demos are powered by technologies from The Epimetrics Group that support online completion of the forms with immediate score calculations and results reporting.
- Registered visitors to our site can perform these studies multiple times and track their scores longitudinally.
- Anonymous, unregistered visitors will get their one-time scores.
- All users will see their results compared to normative data collected from all other users of this demo system over time.
These demos are for illustration purposes only and are not to be used for any form of clinical application by visitors to this site. We believe that there is huge potential for this type of database-backed collection mechanism for useful outcomes monitoring applied to clinical management decisions, quality improvement efforts, and clinical trials.
Contact us to discuss these capabilities further!
CV Outcomes to Partner with ACC on HF GAP Program
CV Outcomes to Partner with ACC on HF GAP Program
30 May 2002 - 09:01
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CV Outcomes has enthusiastically agreed to serve as an official partner to the American College of Cardiology (ACC) in its Guidelines Applied in Practice (GAP) Program. The ACC developed its GAP programs in an effort to improve the quality of cardiovascular care by bringing ACC/AHA practice guidelines to the point of patient care. The program consists of a series of projects to develop and test tools and strategies for implementing guidelines. Key features of GAP projects are the building of partnerships, flexibility for local adaptation of tools derived from guidelines, involvement of caregivers across the continuum of care (i.e., not just cardiologists), involvement of patients, use of champions/opinion leaders, and use of data to change behavior and measure effectiveness of the approach.
CV Outcomes will assist the Oregon HF GAP project, led by Drs. Mark Huth and Ruth Medak, by creating a tool to allow implementation of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) in the outpatient setting and by using the KCCQ to help quantify the benefit of the GAP interventions on patients’ health status. The KCCQ is a 23-item disease-specific health status measure for patients with Congestive Heart Failure. The first CORC project was a 13-center study to define the clinical interpretability of changes in KCCQ scores. Information from this methodological study will be invaluable in interpreting the benefits of the GAP program on patient outcomes.
CORC Meeting at ACC 2002 in Atlanta
CORC Meeting at ACC 2002 in Atlanta
27 March 2002 - 09:49
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The international team of CORC investigators met in Atlanta on Sunday, March 17th.
CV Outcomes Launches Web Site in Partnership with The Epimetrics Group
CV Outcomes Launches Web Site in Partnership with The Epimetrics Group
13 March 2002 - 19:08
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To empower its Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Consortium, CV Outcomes, Inc. has engaged The Epimetrics Group to create and host a variety of collaborative information tools at this web site.
For casual visitors, this site will offer a mix of information about health outcomes research, quality of life indicators and specific functional status instruments such as the Seattle Angina Questionnaire. Note particularly the online demos of these instruments that showcase an innovative way to collect and report these data.
For CORC’s member investigators, this site offers a flexible and expanding suite of collaborative data management tools.
Anonymous browsers are welcome to read these web pages, but by registering at this site, visitors can enter into dialogue with CORC investigators and staff in Forums and Comment sections. Also, registered visitors can download important documents such as detailed instructions for the Seattle Angina Questionnaire, Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire, and other tools for health outcomes research.