Defining optimal left ventricular assist device short-term outcomes may provide insight into programmatic quality assessment

and speaker/educator; Nuwellis, MN. Steering committee member for Restore-HF trial, Unpaid; BiVACOR, TX. DSMB member; CorWave, France: Consultant; Berlin Heart, Inc.: Steering committee member for EXCOR pediatric VAD; JHLT-Deputy editor with mechanical circulatory sup-port focus until 2023; STS Intermacs-member of leadership team; CH Biomedical: Consultant. Kanwar: Abiomed and CorWave advisory board. Abbott-Consultant. Cogswell: Abbott Lab-speaker's bureau; Medtronic-advisory board, husband's employment. Gosev: Abbott-consultant, speaker. Molina: Abbott-consultant, speaker. Kirklin: Director of the Data Coordinating Center for the STS Intermacs Database (KIRSO) and receives partial salary support from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Intellectual properties for IT software development in registry database design developed at and licensed from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Kirklin Solutions Co. Database development and analytics. 20% ownership. No current stock options Cleveland: Abbott-member of the CEC for Aries; consultant; clinical trial funds paid to his institution. Unpaid member of the STS lea-dership team. Shah: Merck, Natera, Procyrion-consultant; Abbott, Merck, Bayer, and Roche-grant support paid to the institution; Dr. Shah is supported under NIH K23-1K23HL143179. Kaczorowski: Abbott with clinical trial funds paid to his institution. Estep: Abbott-consultant, speaker; BioVentrix-consultant; Getinge-consultant. Pagani: Noncompensated ad-hoc scientific advisor for Abbott, CH Biomedical, FineHeart, and Medtronic; Noncompensated medical monitor for Abiomed; Member, Data Safety Monitoring Board for Carmat and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute PumpKIN Study; Receives grant funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Receives partial salary support from Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan as Associate Director of the Michigan Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Quality Collaborative. Deng and Cantor-employed by the Data Coordinating Center for the STS Intermacs Database (KIRSO) . Sandau, Rogers, Dardas, McIlvennan: none. The data for this research were provided by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' National Database Access and Publications Research Program. The authors truly ap-preciate all the time and hard work put in the complex data analytics. The authors also thank the JHLT reviewers.r and speaker/educator; Nuwellis, MN. Steering committee member for Restore-HF trial, Unpaid; BiVACOR, TX. DSMB member; CorWave, France: Consultant; Berlin Heart, Inc.: Steering committee member for EXCOR pediatric VAD; JHLT-Deputy editor with mechanical circulatory sup-port focus until 2023; STS Intermacs-member of leadership team; CH Biomedical: Consultant. Kanwar: Abiomed and CorWave advisory board. Abbott-Consultant. Cogswell: Abbott Lab-speaker's bureau; Medtronic-advisory board, husband's employment. Gosev: Abbott-consultant, speaker. Molina: Abbott-consultant, speaker. Kirklin: Director of the Data Coordinating Center for the STS Intermacs Database (KIRSO) and receives partial salary support from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Intellectual properties for IT software development in registry database design developed at and licensed from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Kirklin Solutions Co. Database development and analytics. 20% ownership. No current stock options Cleveland: Abbott-member of the CEC for Aries; consultant; clinical trial funds paid to his institution. Unpaid member of the STS lea-dership team. Shah: Merck, Natera, Procyrion-consultant; Abbott, Merck, Bayer, and Roche-grant support paid to the institution; Dr. Shah is supported under NIH K23-1K23HL143179. Kaczorowski: Abbott with clinical trial funds paid to his institution. Estep: Abbott-consultant, speaker; BioVentrix-consultant; Getinge-consultant. Pagani: Noncompensated ad-hoc scientific advisor for Abbott, CH Biomedical, FineHeart, and Medtronic; Noncompensated medical monitor for Abiomed; Member, Data Safety Monitoring Board for Carmat and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute PumpKIN Study; Receives grant funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Receives partial salary support from Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan as Associate Director of the Michigan Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Quality Collaborative. Deng and Cantor-employed by the Data Coordinating Center for the STS Intermacs Database (KIRSO) . Sandau, Rogers, Dardas, McIlvennan: none. The data for this research were provided by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' National Database Access and Publications Research Program. The authors truly ap-preciate all the time and hard work put in the complex data analytics. The authors also thank the JHLT reviewers.