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NICOR statement - Paediatric cardiac surgery
NICOR (the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research) analyses data submitted by NHS clinicians about heart disease patients' quality of care and outcomes. NICOR is committed to providing appropriately analysed, accurate outcome data in a timely manner which is understandable by the public, healthcare providers and the medical profession. We work closely with the specialist Clinical Societies. More...
Published: Apr 12, 2013 2:48:03 PM
MINAP and National Heart Failure Audit Patient Reports
Cardiac patients and their families are set to receive a major boost in information about heart conditions with the launch today of the two major patient-focused reports covering heart attack and heart failure care. More...
Published: Jan 30, 2013 4:45:25 PM
National Audit of Percutaneous Coronary Interventional Procedures Public Report 2011
Published: Jan 29, 2013 7:06:02 AM
National Heart Failure Audit 2011/12 Annual Report
The National Heart Failure Audit 2011/12 Annual Report was published on 27th November 2012. More...
Published: Nov 27, 2012 9:29:41 AM
11th MINAP Public Report
Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) has published its 11th Annual Public Report reporting on performance against national standards for hospitals that admit patients with a heart attack. More...
Published: Nov 15, 2012 12:24:33 AM
SLMS news
Post-mortem MRI: a viable alternative to an autopsy
May 17, 2013 16:17PM
Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and blood tests to establish the cause of death in fetuses and newborn babies is virtually as accurate as a standard autopsy, according to a paper published in The Lancet .
Read more...Grassroots women’s groups could halve maternal death rate
May 17, 2013 11:06AM
Women’s groups can dramatically reduce the number of maternal and newborn deaths in some of the world’s poorest communities, according to a new meta-analysis published in The Lancet .
Read more...Global health policy fails to address burden of disease on men
May 17, 2013 00:30AM
Men experience a higher burden of disease and lower life expectancy than women, but policies focusing on the health needs of men are notably absent from the strategies of global health organisations, according to a Viewpoint article in this week’s Lancet .
Read more...MINAP Publications
2011
Gale CP, Cattle BA, Moore J, Dawe H, Greenwood DC, West RM. Impact of missing data on standardised mortality ratios for acute myocardial infarction: evidence from the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) 2004-7. Heart. 2011 Jan 12. [Epub ahead of print]
Gale C et al. Impact of hospital proportion and volume on primary PCI performance in England and Wales European Heart Journal (in press).
Huynh T, Birkhead J, Huber K, et al. Pre-hospital Fibrinolysis in Europe and North America. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions (in press).
Cattle BA, Greenwood DC, Gale CP, Baxter PD, West RM. Multiple Imputation of a Large Clinical Audit Dataset. Statistics in Medicine (in press) BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2006 Aug 2;6:34.
White, C. UK access to primary angioplasty services is still highly variable. BMJ 2011; 343 doi: 10.1136/bmj.d550.
2010
Herrett E, Smeeth L, Walker L, Weston C; on behalf of the MINAP Academic Group. The Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP). Heart 2010;96:1264-1267.
Bhaskaran K, Hajat S, Haines AP, Herrett E, Wilkinson P, Smeeth L. The short term effects of temperature on the risk of myocardial infarction in England and Wales – a multicity daily time series study using the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) database. BMJ 2010;341: c3823.
Bhaskaran K, Hajat S, Haines AP, Herrett E, Wilkinson P, Smeeth L. Effects of ambient temperature on the incidence of myocardial infarction. Heart 2009, 95, 1760-9.
Gale CP, Roberts AP, Batin PD, Hall AS. Funnel plots, performance variation and the Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project 2003-2004. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2006 Aug 2;6:34.
West RM, Cattle BA, Bouyssie M, Squire I, de Belder M, Fox KA, Boyle R, McLenachan JM, Batin PD, Greenwood DC, Gale CP.
Impact of hospital proportion and volume on primary percutaneous coronary intervention performance in England and Wales.<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21196443>Eur Heart J. 2010 Dec 31. [Epub ahead of print]
McNamara RL. Cardiovascular registry research comes of age. Heart 2010; 96:908-10.
Brophy S, Cooksey R, Gravenor MB, Weston C, Macey SM, John G, Williams R, Lyons RA. Population based absolute and relative survival to 1 year of people with diabetes following a myocardial infarction: a cohort study using hospital admissions data. BMC Public Health 2010;10:338.
Widimsky P, Wijns W, Fajadet J, de Belder M, Knot J, Aaberge L, Andrikopoulos G, Baz JA, Betriu A, Claeys M, Danchin N, Djambazov S, Erne P, Hartikainen J, Huber K, Kala P, Klinceva M, Kristensen SD, Ludman P, Ferre JM, Merkely B, Milicic D, Morais J, Noc M, Opolski G, Ostojic M, Radovanovic D, De Servi S, Stenestrand U, Studencan M, Tubaro M, Vasiljevic Z, Weidinger F, Witkowski A, Zeymer U; European Association for Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions. Reperfusion therapy for ST elevation acute myocardial infarction in Europe: description of the current situation in 30 countries. Eur Heart J 2010; 31:943-57.
2009
Bhaskaran K, Hajat S, Haines A, Herrett E, Wilkinson P & Smeeth L. 2009. Effects of air pollution on the incidence of myocardial infarction. Heart, 95, 1746-59.
Simon Horne, Clive Weston, Tom Quinn, Anne Hicks, Lynne Walker, Ruoling Chen and John Birkhead. The impact of pre-hospital thrombolytic treatment on re-infarction rates: analysis of the Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project (MINAP). Heart 2009; 95: 559-563.
Birkhead J, Weston C and Chen R. Determinants and outcomes of coronary angiography after non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. A cohort study of the myocardial ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP). Heart 2009; 95:1593-9.
Gale CP, Manda SO, Weston CF, et al. Evaluation of risk scores for risk stratification of acute coronary syndromes in the Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project (MINAP) database. Heart. 2009; 95:221-7.
2008
Weston C. Performance indicators in acute myocardial infarction: a proposal for future assessment of good quality care. Heart 2008; 94:139-1401.
Gale CP, Manda SO, Batin PD, Weston CF, Birkhead JS, Hall AS. Predictors of in-hospital mortality for patients admitted with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a real-world study using the Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project (MINAP) database. Heart. 2008 Nov;94(11):1407-12. Epub 2007 Dec 10.
Ben-Shlomo Y, Naqvi H, Baker I. Ethnic differences in healthcare-seeking behaviour and management for acute chest pain: secondary analysis of the MINAP dataset 2002–2003. Heart 2008; 94: 354-359.
Gale CP, Manda SO, Weston CF, Birkhead JS, Batin PD, Hall AS. Evaluation of risk scores for risk stratification of acute coronary syndromes in the Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project (MINAP) database. Heart. 2009 Mar;95(3):221-7. Epub 2008 May 8.
2007
C Weston, L Walker and J Birkhead. Early impact of insulin treatment on mortality for hyperglycaemic patients without known diabetes who present with an acute coronary syndrome. Heart 2007; 93: 542-1546.
Birkhead J, Pearson J and Walker L on behalf of the MINAP Steering Group.Management of acute coronary syndromes in England and Wales: a survey of facilities in 2006.Royal College of Physicians, London 2007. ISBN 978-1-86016-314-2.
2006
Birkhead JS, Weston C, Lowe D on behalf of the National Audit of Myocardial Infarction project (MINAP) Steering Group. Impact of specialty of admitting physician and type of hospital on care and outcome for myocardial infarction in England and Wales during 2004-5: observational study. BMJ 2006; 332:1306-1311.
2005
Quinn T, Weston C, Birkhead J, Walker L, Norris R, and on behalf of MINAP Steering Group. Redefining the coronary care unit: an observational study of patients admitted to hospital in England and Wales in 2003- 2005. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 2005; 98 (11): 797-802.
2004
RM Norris, Lowe D and JS Birkhead. Can successful treatment of cardiac arrest be a performance indicator for hospitals?Resuscitation. 2004; 60: 263-269.
Birkhead J and Walker L. MINAP, a project in evolution. Hospital medicine 2004; 452-53.
Birkhead J, Walker L, Pearson M, Weston C, Cunningham AD, Rickards AF. Improving care for patients with acute coronary syndromes; initial results from the National Audit of Myocardial Infarction (MINAP). Heart 2004; 90: 1004-9.
2002
Birkhead JS. The National Audit of Myocardial Infarction: A new development in the audit process. Journal of Clinical Excellence 2002; 4: 379-85.
2001
Birkhead JS, Pearson M, Norris RM et al. Measurement of Clinical Performance: Practical approaches in acute myocardial infarction. Eds Robert West and Robin Norris. Royal College of Physicians 2001.
Birkhead JS, Georgiou A, Knight L et al. (eds) A baseline survey of facilities for the management of acute myocardial infarction in England 2000. London: Royal College of Physicians 2001.
2000
Birkhead JS. Responding to the requirements of the National Service Framework for coronary heart disease: a core dataset for myocardial infarction. Heart 2000; 84: 116-7.
1999
Rickards A, Cunningham D. From quantity to quality: the central cardiac audit database project. Heart 1999;82: 1118-1122.
Birkhead JS, Norris RM, Quinn T et al. Acute myocardial infarction: a core dataset. Royal College of Physicians 1999.
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