The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2017 Update on Research

Henning A Gaissert; Felix G Fernandez; Traves Crabtree; William R Burfeind; Mark S Allen; Mark I Block; Paul H Schipper; Jeffrey P Jacobs; Robert H Habib; David M Shahian; Additional Authors

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.08.060

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2017 Update on Research

Ann Thorac Surg. 2017 Nov;104(5):1450-1455. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.08.060.

Authors

Collaborators

Additional Authors:
Elizabeth A David¹¹, James M Donahue¹², John D Mitchell¹³, Mark W Onaitis¹⁴, Andrzej S Kosinski¹⁵, Kristin Mathis⁹, Benjamin D Kzower¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: hgaissert@partners.org.
² Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
³ Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University, Springfield, Illinois.
⁴ Department of Surgery, St. Luke's University Hospital, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
⁵ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Memorial Healthcare System, Hollywood, Florida.
⁷ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon.
⁸ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins All Children's Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital and Florida Hospital for Children, Saint Petersburg, Tampa, and Orlando, Florida.
⁹ The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Research Center, Chicago, Illinois.
¹⁰ Department of Surgery and Center for Quality and Safety, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹¹ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California.
¹² Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama.
¹³ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
¹⁴ Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California.
¹⁵ Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina.
¹⁶ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.

PMID: 29054210
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.08.060

Abstract

The outcomes research efforts based on The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) General Thoracic Surgery Database include two established research programs with dedicated task forces and with data analyses conducted at the STS data analytic center: (1) The STS-sponsored research by the Access and Publications program, and (2) grant and institutionally funded research by the Longitudinal Follow-Up and Linked Registries Task Force. Also, the STS recently introduced the research program enabling investigative teams to apply for access to deidentified patient-level General Thoracic Surgery Database data sets and conduct related analyses at their own institution. Last year's General Thoracic Surgery Database-based research publications and the new Participant User File research program are reviewed.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Advisory Committees
Biomedical Research / statistics & numerical data*
Biomedical Research / trends
Databases, Factual
Female
Forecasting
Humans
Male
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Registries*
Societies, Medical
Thoracic Surgical Procedures / statistics & numerical data*
Thoracic Surgical Procedures / trends
United States