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APPROACH

Alberta Provincial Project for Outcome Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease

"The right patients receiving the right treatments at the right times."

APPROACH (Alberta Provincial Project for Outcome Assessment in Coronary Heart disease) is a practical, effective and patient-focused initiative with the stated mission to collect and process information to improve cardiac care.

An important part of this initiative has been a data-rich database that currently includes clinical information on 122,000 Albertans with diagnostic cardiac catheterization and/or revascularization procedures and, more recently, 32,000 patients with hospital admissions for acute coronary syndromes. This data continues to reveal important insights into short and long term quality indicators and management strategy effectiveness in Alberta and confirms to us that together we can do an even better job of caring for patients.  Continue reading >>>