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Cardiac surgery was one of the first medical fields where outcome research was developed on the basis of large registries and databases. As early as in 1977, monitoring of survival rates after cardiac surgery began with voluntary submission of data to the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland (SCTS). A year later, the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (DGTHG) established a nationwide voluntary registry for cardiac procedures and mortality rates. About 10 years later, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) constituted its National Database (NDB) while US healthcare officials demanded for outcome—benchmarking. Activities of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) started in the field of congenital cardiac surgery with the development of the EACTS Congenital Database in the late 1990s.
In this chapter the leading databases, of STS, SCTS, EACTS, and DGTHG, are presented as well as databases developed for specific topics in cardiac surgery. Historical developments as well as information about intention, purpose, and size of databases in terms of data set are given.
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Schiller, W., Gummert, J.F. (2017). Databases in Cardiac Surgery. In: Ziemer, G., Haverich, A. (eds) Cardiac Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52672-9_5
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