New Addition to CORC Team - Donna Buchanan PhD

15 August 2005 - 08:52
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I am thrilled to introduce a new member of our CV Outcomes Research Team at Mid America Heart Institute and a critical new asset for CORC. Donna Buchanan is a Ph.D. psychologist who will serve as a Scientific Publications Editor/Coordinator. Donna’s background in healthcare administration and extensive experience in performance improvement/measurement and organizing complex systems to achieve desired outcomes will be immensely valuable for us all.

One of Donna’s roles will be to provide an organizational structure to ensure an efficient and successful process leading to publication of abstracts and manuscripts. Donna will assist in coordinating efforts of the CORC Publication Committee to assure timely review of proposals and final drafts of manuscripts. Donna will also coordinate the call for abstracts prior to conferences. The assigned statistician of the Data Coordinating Center (Mid America Heart Institute) will continue to be the primary contact person for each approved project, but Donna will be working closely with the analytic contact on each project to track progress of teams in achieving project deliverables. In addition, if you feel that a project is having a slow turn-around, or need additional insight on its status, Donna would be a terrific resource. Finally, we would like to have Donna receive a copy of all submitted abstracts and papers as soon as they are sent. She will also need copies of all correspondence that you receive from journals and/or abstract submission committees.

Donna will be contacting the lead authors on current projects to introduce herself and ascertain project status. I encourage you to include Donna on e-mails and communication about achieving project milestones. Donna Buchanan may be contacted by email: dbuchanan@saint-lukes.org or phone: 816-932-1521.

CORC and Wash U reach Reynolds Finals

31 August 2003 - 10:50
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An application to the Donald W.Reynolds Foundation to support a $24 million dollar Translational Research Grant from Washington University and the Mid America Heart Institute is selected as one of 4 finalist from an initial pool of 27 applicants from among the finest cardioavscular research insitutions in the country. Designed to advance the fight against cardiovascular disease and diabetes, the centerpiece of this innovative translational research effort is an ongoing post-MI registry by the Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC).

American Heart Association Participates in PREMIER

13 February 2003 - 16:02
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CORC is very excited to announce a new participant in the PREMIER QI Registry; the American Heart Association (AHA).

As the AHA continues its push to advance the quality of care for patients with cardiovascular disease, it has accepted the opportunity to participate in the PREMIER QI Registry. Recognizing the unique opportunity of PREMIER to define the methodological challenges in collecting, analyzing and interpreting outcomes data to quantify the quality of care, and to leverage these insights into new paradigms of quality assessment, the AHA hopes to identify opportunities to accelerate the translation of new and exciting knowledge into clinical practice. Furthermore, the AHA plans to use this opportunity to understand the impact of current quality measures, as captured through their Get with the Guidelines Program on patients’ survival, symptoms, function and quality of life.

To facilitate the interaction between AHA and the Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC),an AHA representative will actively participate in investigator meetings and serve as an ex-officio member of PREMIER’s Publications Committee.

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

PREMIER QI Registry Launch Meeting October 14-15, 2002!

02 August 2002 - 09:30
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We will hold the launch meeting for the PREMIER QI Registry immediately following the 4th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in CVD and Stroke in Washington, DC October 12-14.

All CORC PIs and study coordinators who are participating in the PREMIER QI Registry should plan to attend this important meeting.

Here is the preliminary agenda:

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The venue is the Ritz-Carlton Hotel – Pentagon City in Arlington, VA, (five minutes from Reagan International directly on the blue and yellow metro line)

Make your plans to attend now!

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.

<b>CV Outcomes to Partner with ACC on CHF GAP program</b>

30 May 2002 - 07:50
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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 CHF GAP project, led by Drs. Mark Huth and Ruth Mendak, 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.

<b>CV Outcomes to Partner with ACC on CHF GAP program</b>

30 May 2002 - 07:49
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CV Outcomes has enthusiastically agreed to serve as an official partner to the 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 CHF GAP project, led by Drs. Mark Huth and Ruth Mendak, 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 patient’s 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 Investigators Meeting at ACC 2002 on March 17

14 March 2002 - 10:57
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As you know, we are scheduled to meet from 5-7PM in the Greenwood Room at the Omni Hotel. We will be having some soft drinks and cookies but not dinner. I know that some have additional meetings after this one, and so we decided not to serve a meal.

The agenda will be as follows:

We have an enormous amount to discuss so hopefully we can begin promptly. I really look forward to seeing you all. I think that we have a lot to be proud of and some great opportunities for the future. See you Sunday.