There are a variety of issues that relate to the way data gets from a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) centre’s database into the servers of the Central Cardiac Audit Database (CCAD). The BCIS-CCAD minimum dataset is being used by England and Wales, and hopefully soon by Northern Ireland.

I felt it important to document the mechanism of data import from the English and Welsh centres to help those who are interested understand the process, and make clear how any apparent anomalies might occur.
The full document can now be found here.

Peter Ludman
BCIS Audit Secretary