Alberta Provincial Project for Outcome Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease (APPROACH)
APPROACH was initiated in 1995 to facilitate the study of provincial outcomes of care and promote quality improvement for patients with coronary artery disease in Alberta, Canada. Participants are over 240,000 adults who were admitted to the hospital for acute coronary syndromes or cardiac procedures. Information is collected regarding the patient’s procedure as well as their comorbidities. Patients have also been invited to provide follow-up information on their experience, generic and disease-specific quality of life, and outcomes at baseline and 1, 3 and 5 years after cardiac catheterization. Further follow-up occurs through administrative data linkage, including health care and mortality data.
Study design
Registry, Cohort - clinical
Number of participants at first data collection
240,000 (participants)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants )
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1995
Primary Institutions
University of Calgary
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Alberta Health Services (AHS)
Libin Cardiovascular Institute
Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute
W. Garfield Weston Foundation (now known as the Weston Family Foundation)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Existing research data
- Geographic, spatial & environmental data
- Healthcare data
- Mortality data
Engagement
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