[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 202 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 202

Celebrating the goals and ideals of 20th anniversary of The Society of 
                  Thoracic Surgeons National Database.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 22, 2009

    Mr. Boustany (for himself and Mr. Kind) submitted the following 
 concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy 
                              and Commerce

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Celebrating the goals and ideals of 20th anniversary of The Society of 
                  Thoracic Surgeons National Database.

Whereas The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) is a not-for-profit organization 
        representing cardiothoracic surgeons, researchers, and allied health 
        professionals worldwide who are dedicated to ensuring the best possible 
        surgical care for patients with diseases of the heart, lung, esophagus, 
        and other organs in the chest;
Whereas the STS supports data-driven approaches to quality measurement, quality 
        improvement, and quality reporting and recognizes that the collection of 
        clinical data and the feedback of those data to physicians improve 
        patient outcomes;
Whereas the STS believes that physicians are in the best position to measure 
        clinical performance both accurately and objectively;
Whereas in 1989, the STS established the STS National Database, which has become 
        the premier voluntary clinical data registry for cardiothoracic surgery 
        dedicated to providing a program by which cardiothoracic surgeons can 
        report clinical data;
Whereas the STS National Database includes three component parts, the Adult 
        Cardiac Surgery Database, the General Thoracic Surgery Database, and the 
        Congenital Heart Surgery Database;
Whereas the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database has grown to include participants 
        representing more than 2,800 surgeons from 49 States and is estimated to 
        capture 90 percent of all cardiac surgery centers in the United States 
        with more than 3,900,000 records for cardiac surgical procedures;
Whereas in 2008, the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database recorded 270,345 
        procedures performed by cardiothoracic surgeons, of which, 139,060 
        involved Medicare beneficiaries;
Whereas feedback to individual physicians on performance from the STS National 
        Database has led to improved quality; and
Whereas the STS National Database is recognized in medicine as the premier 
        cardiothoracic surgery database: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That Congress--
            (1) celebrates the goals and ideals of the 20th anniversary 
        of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database;
            (2) applauds the use of data from the STS National Database 
        to benefit patients by providing the most efficient and 
        appropriate medical care;
            (3) recognizes the need to support and promote the creation 
        of additional clinical databases in medicine; and
            (4) commends cardiothoracic surgeons for demonstrating 
        their dedication to professional responsibility and the highest 
        level of patient care by continued use of the STS National 
        Database.
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