Publications
The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) is strongly committed to improving the quality of cardiovascular care across Canada through evidence-based health system transformation. In addition to its six sets of cardiovascular quality indicators, the CCS has also published a number of quality reports, policy papers and feasibility assessments to help enable pan-Canadian cardiovascular quality measurement and reporting.
National Quality Reports
Cardiac Care Quality Indicators Report
Each year, the CCS and the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) jointly release a Cardiac Care Quality Indicator (CCQI) data update. The 2020 update includes data on mortality rates following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), aortic valve replacement (AVR), and combined AVR and CABG, as well as readmission rates after PCI and isolated CABG. The data has been pooled over three years (2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019) and is reported at the pan-Canadian, provincial, and local level.
Review commentaries on the Cardiac Surgery and PCI outcomes based on the 2019 CCQI data update.
Review the 2018 CCQI data update
Review the 2017 CCQI report
National Quality Report: TAVI
The 2019 National Quality Report: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) provides an updated pan-Canadian snapshot of TAVI care across the country between 2013 and 2017.
This report provides evidence to catalyze local, regional, and national quality improvement; to support patients’ access to high-quality care; and to foster a national strategy to optimize patient outcomes, health service utilization, and access to treatment.
Review the 2016 National Quality Report: TAVI
Key Publications of Interest
2018
2017
2016
Why We Need More and Better Cardiovascular Disease Quality Indicators, Cox et al., 2016
2015
Canadian Cardiovascular Society quality indicators for heart failure, McKelvie et al., 2015
Feasibility of Assessing 2 Cardiac Rehabilitation Quality Indicators. Grace et al., 2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
Best Practices for Developing Cardiovascular Quality Indicators Tu et al., 2011
2010
Cardiac Quality Indicators Key Informant Survey Canadian Cardiovascular Society, 2010
Pan-Canadian Data Definitions Background Paper Buller et al., 2010
Evaluation of Canadian, American and International Cardiovascular Registries Zhang et al., 2010