audit and quality assessment of national persian registry of cardiovascular disease(n-prove) in terms of comorbidities, angiography, and angioplasty characteristics in iran

Background: the national persian registry of cardiovascular disease (n-prove) has been established to provide a comprehensive database of cardiovascular diseases in the iranian community for further investigations and to develop national guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cardiovascular disease (cvd). as with most clinical registries, a quality control audit is necessary to ensure a comprehensive and accurate registry; the current study aims to assess the validity and quality of the n-prove/angiography/percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) registry.methods: the current cross-sectional quality assessment study serves as an example of data quality assessment in n-prove on a sample of patients registered in the n-prove/angiography/pci registry since 2020. accordingly, data of 194 patients, including comorbidities, angiography, and angioplasty characteristics, were collected from the n-prove/angiography/pci registry as the main database and reevaluated by a panel consisting of a cardiologist and two coronary intervention fellowships as a test database.results: the quality control of the population-based healthcare database, the n-prove/pci, revealed that the average error rate in terms of comorbidities, angiography characteristics, angioplasty characteristics, and in total were 3.8%, 2.3%, 3%, and 3.03%, respectively.conclusion: according to the findings of this study, the n-prove/pci registry had an average error of less than 4% in the assessed dimensions, including comorbidities, angiography, and angioplasty characteristics. therefore, this registry appears valid and may be used for contemporary epidemiological studies.