Overview
The Clinical Outcomes Assessment Program (COAP) is a Washington State initiative designed to produce clinical information needed to improve quality of care and meet the growing demand for accountability in the health care industry.
COAP's physician-led Management Committee, in partnership with State officials and key stakeholders, has created this program as a model of collaboration in which Washington State’s cardiac community can work together toward a common goal — improving patient care and health outcomes. COAP's timely reporting mechanism provides hospitals with clinical feedback on a quarterly basis.
Through the protection of Washington State law and private contract, COAP offers special protection for the confidentiality of quality improvement information. COAP is operated under the auspices of the Foundation for Health Care Quality a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation.
COAP’s Unique Value
- COAP’s mission is to improve quality of care for patients with heart disease treated in all WA hospitals providing cardiac surgery and PCI.
- COAP relies on clinical data submitted by 31 WA hospitals. Data is tested, cleaned, reviewed quarterly for errors
- COAP establishes quality standards by peer consensus and holds institutions accountable for performing to those standards
- OAP can document statistically-significant improved quality in areas of focus: mortality, time on ventilator, increased IMA grafting, reduced blood usage and lowered door-to-balloon times.
