This month’s registry spotlight is on PC⁴ – Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium. Registry Partners’ Pediatric Service Line assists facilities and institutions nationwide with their PC⁴ data collection efforts. We serve as a complete outsource solution or can augment the facility’s current data collection team to ensure high quality, timely, and accurate data collection and submission. Read on to learn more about the Pediatric Cardiac Critical…
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 ACC Quality Summit, originally slated to take place in Orlando, FL, pivoted to a completely virtual platform to provide attendees with insights and inspiration from foremost cardiovascular leaders and experts. More than 2,500 registry professionals, administrators, clinicians, and quality experts came together virtually Oct. 8 – 9 to discuss NCDR registry-specific and hospital industry knowledge, the value…
The October CTR Coding Break reviews the topic Abstracting in Text. Text in the cancer abstract is important and must be complete, timely, and accurate in order to be useful. Text can explain the choice of codes and should match the coded data. A brief introduction is provided along with more detail of the multiple subjects of text. Many times, the date, name or type, and…
Distracted driving covers a variety of activities that divert attention away from driving. This could include talking on the phone, texting, using social media while driving, eating/drinking, playing with the radio/navigation systems, or even talking to others in the car. According to NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), distracted driving was responsible for 3,450 deaths in 2016. An additional 391,000 people were injured as a result…
