Intermacs Web-Based Reporting: Outcome Analytics Overview and Instructions for Downloading Reports Intermacs Data Coordinating Center

Congratulations! You’ve chosen to access your site’s outcome analytics report This tool provides many useful features that allow you to examine patient characteristics at your hospital while also comparing outcomes Please note the Outcome Analytics is only accessible to Site Administrators

What is the Outcome Analytics Tool? The Outcome Analytics tool entails the creation and delivery of reports that describe the user-defined cohorts. After the user has selected the criteria for the cohort, they may submit the request. The following day, a report which describes the cohort along with a Kaplan-Meier is generated. The user- defined cohorts may be compared: Between the site’s own patients (cohort # 1) and an equivalent overall Intermacs (cohort # 2) Between the site’s own patients based on subgroups (cohort # 1 and cohort # 2) A single cohort selection from a site

Why does it take a day to get my report? The outcome analytic feature is based on integrating two systems 1) A new web based feature that allows selection of user-defined cohorts based on key patient characteristics 2) Our analysis server that houses our latest research data and vetted statistical programs for advanced outcome analysis This ensures you are getting the same integrity checked data and methods that are used in Intermacs Quarterly Reports Exhibits and Intermacs Research Project Currently this linkage happens once a day but we hope to speed up this process in the future

Outcome Analytics Reports Compare patient outcomes from your site and Intermacs based on user-selected groups of patients Report Request Select Cohort All Forms Intermacs Research Datasets Delivery Calculations Intervals

Logging into the Web-Based Reporting System Upon logging into the Web-Based Reporting system, you will click on the “Reports” tab.

Report Page The “Reports tab will bring you to the screen seen to the right. Click on “Outcome Analytics” tab

Request Management Page The Outcome Analytics section will bring you to a screen where you are able to manage your requests. From this screen you can see requests you have submitted that are pending or complete. Also, you may see if a request you submitted was in error.

Request Management Page The Request Management page will allow you to download previous requests you have submitted. To start a new request, click on “Create New Request”

Outcome Analytics Report Screen Clicking the “Submit Request” button will bring to the screen seen below. You are prompted to select the type of cohort comparison you would like to make. You can also enter in a name for your report in the “Report Label” box.

1. Select Type of Comparison Report Single Cohort at Your Site Example: All patients from your hospital Compare Two Cohorts at Your Site Example: Compare men and women at your hospital Compare a Cohort at Your Site with Similar Patients in Intermacs Example: Compare destination therapy patients at your hospital and Intermacs

2. Select Cohort Parameters Selection parameters All vs Primary MCSD Patients All Patients – Includes Patient’s who have previous MCSD and patients whose first device was entered into Intermacs Primary MCSD – Patients with no prior MCSD before being entered into Intermacs Implant Date Range Gender Race Age Range Intermacs Patient Profile Level Device Strategy Device Type Flow Type

Submit Request Once a request is submitted, you will be returned to the Request Management page. You will now see the addition of your new request marked as “pending”

Editing a Request After Submission If you have made an error in your request and wish to edit it, you may select “edit” from the Request Management page. This will open your request up for you to fix in anyway you like. Please note when a request is marked as “processing”, you may not edit the request

Processing Time Once you have submitted your request, all requests take ~1 day to process. At 11:30PM that day, you will receive an email from noreply@uab.edu. This email will be addressed to your username alerting you that your report is ready for pick-up

Report Pick-Up The email below will prompt you to log-in to the Web-Based Data Entry system to pick-up your report. Please note your report will expire after 14 days.

Report Pick-Up After clicking the link in your email, you will be returned to the Request Management page. From here, you are able to download your request.

Exploring the PDF Report Each PDF report will contain bar charts and frequencies of your selected criteria. The last page of your report will contain a Kaplan-Meier

Example 1: Single Cohort from your Site

Example 1: Single Cohort Kaplan-Meier

Example 2: Subgroups Within Your Site (Males vs. Females)

Example 2: Subgroups Within Site Kaplan-Meier

Example 3: Comparing your cohort to overall Intermacs (LVAD Patients)

Example 3: Comparison to Intermacs Kaplan-Meier