TY - JOUR
T1 - The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database
T2 - 2021 Update on Outcomes and Research
AU - Servais, Elliot L.
AU - Towe, Christopher W.
AU - Farjah, Farhood
AU - Brown, Lisa M.
AU - Broderick, Stephen R.
AU - Block, Mark I.
AU - Burfeind, William R.
AU - Mitchell, John D.
AU - Schipper, Paul H.
AU - Raymond, Daniel P.
AU - David, Elizabeth A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database (STS GTSD) remains the largest and most robust thoracic surgical database in the world. Participating sites receive risk-adjusted performance reports for benchmarking and quality improvement initiatives. The GTSD also provides several mechanisms for high-quality clinical research using data from 271 participant sites and nearly 720,000 procedures since its inception in 2002. Participant sites are audited at random annually for completeness and accuracy. During the last year and a half, the GTSD Task Force continued to refine the data collection form, ensuring high-quality data while minimizing data entry burden. In addition, the STS Workforce on National Databases has supported robust GTSD-based research program, which led to 10 scholarly publications in 2020. This report provides an update on outcomes, volume trends, and database improvements as well as a summary of research productivity resulting from the GTSD over the preceding year.
AB - The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database (STS GTSD) remains the largest and most robust thoracic surgical database in the world. Participating sites receive risk-adjusted performance reports for benchmarking and quality improvement initiatives. The GTSD also provides several mechanisms for high-quality clinical research using data from 271 participant sites and nearly 720,000 procedures since its inception in 2002. Participant sites are audited at random annually for completeness and accuracy. During the last year and a half, the GTSD Task Force continued to refine the data collection form, ensuring high-quality data while minimizing data entry burden. In addition, the STS Workforce on National Databases has supported robust GTSD-based research program, which led to 10 scholarly publications in 2020. This report provides an update on outcomes, volume trends, and database improvements as well as a summary of research productivity resulting from the GTSD over the preceding year.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.06.024
DO - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.06.024
M3 - Article
C2 - 34237295
AN - SCOPUS:85111505353
SN - 0003-4975
VL - 112
SP - 693
EP - 700
JO - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
JF - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
IS - 3
ER -