AMIS Plus
The AMIS Plus project ( Acute Myocardial Infarction in Switzerland ) is the Swiss heart attack registry with data center at the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Zurich . AMIS Plus was founded in 1997 by the three Swiss medical societies for cardiology , intensive care medicine and internal medicine ( Swiss Society for Cardiology , Swiss Society for Intensive Care Medicine and Swiss Society for Internal Medicine ).
target
The aim of the AMIS Plus project is a nationwide database for recording and evaluating diagnostic and therapeutic measures in heart attack patients. AMIS Plus is a data source that documents how the risk profiles change, how new therapy concepts are introduced and what significance these have on prognoses and costs. Based on the collected data, AMIS Plus writes epidemiological studies on topics such as risk factors, medication and the probability of survival. The hospitals participating in AMIS Plus have immediate access to their data in an evaluated form and, taking data protection into account , can compare their own patients and treatment methods with those of all hospitals in Switzerland. This enables new findings to be implemented in practice.
history
After the initiation of AMIS in 1997, the project also included cases of angina pectoris from January 2000 and was renamed to the current name. In November of the same year, the data center transferred from the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at the University Hospital Geneva to the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Zurich . Today (December 2011) the register contains data on over 38,000 patients. It has been approved by the National Ethical Commission of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences , by the Federal Expert Commission on Professional Secrecy in Medical Research and, since 2005, by the cantonal ethics committees .
organization
The overall responsibility of the project carries a Steering Committee ( Steering Committee ) by Swiss cardiologists, intensive care physicians and internists. It is presided over by Paul Erne , Chief Physician Cardiology at the Cantonal Hospital Lucerne, Switzerland. The AMIS Plus Data Center as the executive body and central register collects data that is used for scientific analyzes . These evaluations are published regularly. The head of the data center is Dragana Radovanovic , she is supported by a team of four.