Background

Most researchers in the field of mechanical circulatory support require data on heart failure prevalence, heart transplants, disease burden, usage of cardiac assist devices, associated costs etc. frequently when writing articles, grant applications or preparing lectures and presentations. However, finding this data can be time consuming, especially when one is new to the field.

Aims and Objectives

One of the key objectives of the OpenHeart Project is to improve education and training of students and emerging researchers within the field of mechanical circulatory. To provide an improved overview of heart failure prevalence and the use of mechanical circulatory support around the globe we are developing interactive world maps to provide statistical information. A rough prototype of the maps can be seen here for visualization purposes.

Initially two maps will be implemented (HF prevalence and MCS), however further maps can be implemented as needed (e.g. Europe including individual countries).

To collect statistical information a google document OpenHeart Interactive World Maps - Stats was created.

Key Documents

Google Doc - Interactive World Maps

Repository

Find the Bitbucket repository for this project here.

References

Licence Information

All source-code and software posted within the Interactive Maps - Statistics - repository are licensed under a 3-Clause BSD License (BSD-3-Clause). Any supplementary data and other materials are licensed under an Attribution CC BY Version 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) unless otherwise indicated (such as permitted versions of published articles whose copyright belongs to the publishers) and apart from logos. You are free to use, adapt and commercialise this source-code, software, data or other materials as long as you acknowledge the OpenHeart Project.