STS Congenital Heart Surgery Dashboard

This project creates an improved interface for analyzing STS (Society of Thoracic Surgeons) Congenital Heart Surgery data. It scrapes public reporting data from participating hospitals and presents it in a user-friendly, comparative format.

Features

• Automated data collection from STS public reporting pages
• Comparative analysis of hospital outcomes
• Interactive data visualization
• Custom filtering and sorting capabilities
• Hospital performance metrics comparison

Setup

1. Create a virtual environment:

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

2. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the scraper:

python -m scraper.scraper

4. Start the web application:

python -m webapp.app

Project Structure

• scraper/: Web scraping and data collection components
• database/: Database models and management
• webapp/: Flask web application and UI components

Data Sources

Data is collected from the STS Public Reporting website (https://publicreporting.sts.org/congenital/)