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ECSUR - E
uropean
C
ardiac
Su
rgical
R
egistry
Link to main ECSUR Webpages
EACTS Database Committee
Prof K M Taylor - London, UK (Chairman)
Prof T Aberg - Umea, Sweden
Prof P Sergeant - Leuven, Belgium
Mr J Dussek - London, UK
Mr M Elliott - London, UK
Dr C Vahl - Heidelberg, Germany
Dr R Lorusso - Brescia, Italy
Dr R Wyse - London, UK
ECSUR People
Prof K M Taylor
Chairman of the EACTS Database Committee
Dr R Wyse
ECSUR Project Manager
Mrs C Gunn
ECSUR Project Co-ordinator
Mr M Hegarty
ECSUR Database Assistant
Background to the project
- Conducted under the auspices of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS).
- Funded by the European Commission. (Biomed Programme)
- Project Centre based at the Hammersmith Hospital, London.
Aims of the project
- Centralise cardiac surgical data from a large number of cardiac surgical centres across Europe,
enabling comprehensive analysis for participants.
- Also included in ECSUR will be data from several existing national databases.
Phase 1 (Completed)
Employment of staff
- 3 members of staff run the project, a Project Manager, a Project Co-ordinator
and a Database Assistant.
ECSUR hardware and software
- 2 dual Pentium 200Mhz servers, and several client machines
form the ECSUR network, based on Windows NT 4.0.
- The database runs on Microsoft Access and SQL server.
Development of the Contacts Database
- Over 600 centres have been written to for information about their
current contact information: Heads of departments and addresses, surgical activity, coding systems
and in-house computer systems. We have the names of over 2,000 individuals, predominantly cardiac
surgeons.
Phase 2
- Further collection of information from centres.
- Data collection of both minimum and medium data set.
- Database will be launched on 1st October 1997.
Data Collection
- Each centre sends cardiac surgical data to ECSUR at regular intervals.
- This can be done by any preferred process: Internet, modem, fax, post, diskette
- The data will be held, and analysed, on dual Pentium servers.
- Future development includes the ability of centres to connect to ECSUR and analyse data.
Minimum Data Set
To be submitted by all participating centres for each
patient/procedure performed.
- Geographic site of each centre
- Date of procedure
- Unique patient identifier
- Date of birth of patient
- Gender of patient
- Code for the Cardiac Surgical Procedure
- On cardiopulmonary bypass?
- Reoperation?
Medium Data Set
- As well as the "basic" minimum cardiac surgical dataset,
centres capable of sending more substantial datasets(such as the STS dataset,
approximately 150 variables) will be strongly encouraged to do so.
m.hegarty@rpms.ac.uk
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