Cardiac Catheterization

Sections

• Overview
   
• Published Reports
   
• Data Charts
   
• Data Reporting
   
• Regulations

Overview
New Jersey hospitals that operate a cardiac catheterization laboratory are required to report data on each patient undergoing catheterization.  This includes both diagnostic and interventional catheterization procedures.  [More on catheterization procedures]
 
The information is collected in the department’s Cardiac Catheterization Registries, and used both to assess compliance with licensing standards and
to monitor cardiac catheterization trends.
 
The department licenses all cardiac catheterization laboratories in one of four categories.  These categories determine the types of procedures the lab may perform and the types of patients they may treat.  [More information on licensing categories]
 
Nine New Jersey hospitals with cath labs have also joined the state’s Elective Angioplasty Demonstration Project.  The project is part of a federally funded, multi-state study of elective (non-emergency) angioplasty in hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery back-up.

Johns Hopkins University is conducting the study to determine whether patients would benefit if elective angioplasty were made more widely available at community hospitals without cardiac surgery services.

Published Reports
Technical information about cardiac catheterization is available in:

• An Overview of PCI in New Jersey, 2005 [pdf 202k]

Data Charts

• Cardiac Data Registries - Cardiac Surgery and Cardiac Catheterization by Hospital:
      Quarter 3, 2008 [pdf 29kb]
      Quarter 1 - Quarter 4, 2007 [pdf 30k]
      Quarter 1 - Quarter 4, 2006 [pdf 18k]
      Quarter 1 - Quarter 4, 2005 [pdf 17k]
  

Additional data charts on cardiac catheterizations are available showing:

• Number of Low-Risk Diagnostic Catheterizations by Hospital and Year, 1998-2005 [pdf 13k]
   
• Trends in Low Risk Diagnostic Catheterizations, 1998-2005 [pdf 12k]
     
• Number of Diagnostic Catheterizations (Except Low-Risk) by Hospital and Year, 1998-2005 [pdf 16K]
   
• Trends in Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization (Except Low-Risk) 1998-2005 [pdf 12K]
   
• Number of Interventional Catheterizations in Primary Angioplasty Centers by Hospital and Year, 1999-2005 [pdf 14k]
   
• Number of Interventional Catheterizations in Cardiac Surgery Centers by Hospital and Year, 1998-2005 [pdf 14K]

Data Reporting

In 2007, New Jersey implemented a unified data reporting system for all cardiac catheterization laboratories. Hospitals now use one reporting form, filling out only those portions relating to the type of lab each hospital operates.

• Cardiac Catheterization Data Registry
  • Reporting Form, HCQO-27 [pdf 10k, doc 35k]
  • Cardiac Cathereterization Data Registry, HCQ-7 [pdf 88k, doc 251k]
  • Instructions and Data Submission Manual [pdf 1mb]
   

Please visit the Cardiac Surgery page for forms and instructions on cardiac surgery reporting.

Regulations

Regulations governing Cardiac Diagnostic Facilities and Cardiac Surgery Centers, Certificate of Need, and Hospital Licensing, as well as related forms, applications and instructions are available from the Certificate of Need and Healthcare Facility Licensure program.