Australian Cardiac Procedures Registry (ACPR)

In November 2008 the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care appointed CCRE Therapeutics to undertake a large-scale project involving the validation of Australian Clinical Registries. 

This initiative builds on the successful conduct of the Australian Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons Victorian database project and the Melbourne Intervention Group PCI registry. 

Utilising the framework established from the existing cardiac surgical and PCI registries, and the development work from implantable devices, the aim of this project is to:
          a) enhance and develop the merger of two existing clinical registries in cardiac surgery and percutaneous cardiac intervention (PCI) into a scalable national cardiac procedures registry that will improve the reliability of information acquisition across all contributing locations, and
          b) develop an additional module that will extend the registry information collection to include implantable devices such as pacemakers and implanted defibrillators.  The development of such modules will enhance the cardiac registry functionality to provide a common platform to enhance its national utility.

The target population for this registry activity is patients, practitioners and policy makers.  A Cardiac Procedural Registry is crucial to ensure that all patients are getting the best possible treatment and achieving the best outcomes.  Patients are entitled to know the likely outcome of various treatments, with appropriate risk adjustments, in order to make informed choices.  A cardiac procedures registry would be an invaluable tool for clinicians, allowing them to review practice, compare outcomes to a "standard" and make changes to improve practice.  Individual sites performing coronary revascularisation, and implanting cardiac devices procedures only have internationally published cohort data with which to compare outcomes.