The American College of Cardiology's Adult Congenital and Pediatric Cardiology (ACPC) Section is pleased to provide the congenital heart disease (CHD) community an avenue to review and pilot sets of CHD quality metrics. Available quality metrics may be found below. These metrics were developed under the auspices of the ACC's ACPC Quality Working Group. Details of the quality metric development process and a list of participating teams are available to the left.
Click the plus (+) signs beside the headings below to learn more about Quality Metrics and the ACC's ACPC Quality Network. Email acpcqnet@acc.org for more information.
Overview of the ACC's ACPC Quality Network
The ACC's Adult Congenital & Pediatric Cardiology Quality Network™ aims to provide participants and corresponding practices a means of engaging in quality measurement and improvement targeted to the congenital heart disease (CHD) and pediatric cardiology community.
The network is building off the work of the ACPC Section's quality metric work in developing metrics across several domains in pediatric cardiology and CHD. The primary objective of this program is to create a user-friendly and minimally burdensome metric implementation and data collection process for participants.
The network quality metrics are designated for use in internal quality improvement programs only and will not be used for other purposes (i.e. pay for performance, physician ranking, or public reporting programs). Data will be collected at the facility/site level. Participating sites will only report numerator(s) and denominator(s) for each metric and will not provide any personal health information (PHI).
ACC will aggregate data and will produce quarterly performance reports that will display facility level performance across a suite of quality metrics.
The network is intended to be a flexible tool, with metrics added or removed on an annual basis. The College will seek MOC Part IV accreditation for participants and will emphasize collaborative QI activities and engage participants in a variety of on-line and in-person learning sessions, aimed at identifying opportunities to measure and increase quality care in the CHD community.
For more information about the program and how to enroll, please visit www.acc.org/qnet
Intent of Quality Metrics
In accordance with the 2008 ACC/AHA Classification Care Metrics: Performance Measures and Quality Metrics (Bonow R, et al, JACC, vol 52, No.24, pp. 2113- 2117), the proposed quality metrics are designated for use in internal quality improvement programs only. It is not appropriate for any other use, e.g., pay for performance, physician ranking, or public reporting programs.
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