Assessing enrollment of eligible infants in the National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative (NPC-QIC) through linkage to the pediatric cardiac critical care consortium (PC4) registry

Katherine E. Bates, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Congenital Heart Center, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Janet Donohue, The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Wenying Zhang, Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Katherine Mikesell, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Congenital Heart Center, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Jeffrey B. Anderson, The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Michael Bingler, Nemours Cardiac Center, Nemours Children's Hospital, Orlando, FL, USA.
David W. Brown, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Michael G. Gaies, The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Nancy Ghanayem, Advocate Aurora HealthFollow
Linda M. Lambert, Primary Children's Hospital Heart Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Sara K. Pasquali, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Congenital Heart Center, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
David Schidlow, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Jeffrey Vergales, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Kurt R. Schumacher, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Congenital Heart Center, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

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Advocate Children's Hospital

Abstract

Background: The National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative (NPC-QIC) lacks a rigorous enrollment audit process, unlike other collaborative networks. Most centers require individual families to consent to participate. It is unknown whether there is variation across centers or biases in enrollment.

Methods: We used the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4) registry to assess enrollment rates in NPC-QIC for those centers participating in both registries using indirect identifiers (date of birth, date of admission, gender, and center) to match patient records. All infants born 1/1/2018-12/31/2020 and admitted 30 days of life were eligible. In PC4, all infants with a fundamental diagnosis of hypoplastic left heart or variant or who underwent a surgical or hybrid Norwood or variant were eligible. Standard descriptive statistics were used to describe the cohort and center match rates were plotted on a funnel chart.

Results: Of 898 eligible NPC-QIC patients, 841 were linked to 1,114 eligible PC4 patients (match rate 75.5%) in 32 centers. Match rates were lower in patients of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity (66.1%, p = 0.005), and those with any specified chromosomal abnormality (57.4%, p = 0.002), noncardiac abnormality (67.8%, p = 0.005), or any specified syndrome (66.5%, p = 0.001). Match rates were lower for patients who transferred to another hospital or died prior to discharge. Match rates varied from 0 to 100% across centers.

Conclusions: It is feasible to match patients between the NPC-QIC and PC4 registries. Variation in match rates suggests opportunities for improvement in NPC-QIC patient enrollment.

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Article

PubMed ID

37434511

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