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Ann Thorac Surg 1996;61:204-205
© 1996 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Invited Commentary

Invited Commentary

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Montreal General Hospital 1650 Cedar Ave Room L9-120 Montreal, Que H3G 1A4 Canada

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See also page 202.

There is sweeping enthusiasm for the establishment of registries to collect various types of surgical information. The usefulness of any registry will depend entirely on the objectives it wishes to achieve and the type of data that it accumulates. Currently, most registries are voluntary and lack the mechanisms that render provision of data obligatory. As a result, a voluntary registry that receives information from a large number of medical centers risks the serious disadvantage of being incomplete. The implications of this are the following: (1) Many centers with results that are perceived not to be at par with what is generally accepted will not report their data. This will usually occur despite assurances that information will remain confidential (in today's world of rapid telecommunication, words go around quickly). (2) Reporting of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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