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Neal W White Jr
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3 years ago
Hospital to Home (H2H) is a national quality improvement initiative of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). It builds on the success of the ACC Door-to-Balloon Alliance for Quality and the IHI 100K Lives and 5 Million Lives campaigns. The goal of the H2H initiative is to reduce 30-day all-cause readmission rates for patients discharged with…
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Marti L McCulloch
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Robert J Davis
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3 years ago
The cardiac imaging field has experienced significant improvements over the last decade due to technological advances. Cardiac computed tomography (CT), cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear cardiology, and echocardiography have all become feasible imaging modalities for physicians to evaluate in order to answer specific diagnostic questions. Each of the aforementioned modalities has…
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Author(s):
Joris van den Hurk
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3 years ago
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death worldwide.1 With an estimated 7.6 million global deaths due to coronary heart disease in 2005,2 the size of the burden placed on society cannot be understated. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the classic ‘heart attack,’ will be the classification given to many of these deaths. In its most life-threatening form, AMI is identified…
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Author(s):
Kari Gorder
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Steve Rudick
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Timothy D Smith
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1 year ago
Foreword
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W Douglas Weaver
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3 years ago
Article
Author(s):
Bonnie H Weiner
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3 years ago
As technology and specialties in cardiac and endovascular care continue to develop at a rapid pace, oversight becomes increasingly important to ensure the highest quality patient care. The demand for quality comes from many directions—the public, regulators, and insurers. However, oversight for delivering the best possible care at facilities where percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and…
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Author(s):
Domenic A Sica
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3 years ago
A not inconsequential number of therapeutic agents or chemical substances can increase blood pressure (BP). The degree to which BP increases determines whether a specific definitional threshold has been crossed, at which time the patient is designated as having become hypertensive. Drugs that cause hypertension do so by either causing vasoconstriction, increasing extracellular fluid (ECF) volume,…
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Transesophageal Echocardiography
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Bijoy K Khandheria
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3 years ago
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Author(s):
Blair D Erb
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Joseph Allen
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Lisa Chambers
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et al
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3 years ago
In the fall of 2009, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) launched the Practice innovation and clinical excellence (PINNACLE) Network™.1 The foundation of the PINNACLE Network rested on three observations by ACC membership and staff:
The medical profession is in the midst of unprecedented social, political, and economic change that dramatically impacts how cardiovascular specialists provide…
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Transesophageal Echocardiography
Author(s):
Bijoy K Khandheria
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3 years ago
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