Patient Care Team
Virtual care team model improves prescribing of heart failure drugs: IMPLEMENT-HF
NEW ORLEANS — A virtual care team-guided strategy improved guideline-directed medical therapy for inpatients with HF with reduced ejection fraction across multiple hospitals in an integrated health care system, researchers reported.
‘Spread the wealth,’ utilize team-based care to combat growing GI provider shortage
There are no easy solutions for the ongoing and increasing shortage in GI providers — everybody is feeling this challenge.
GI physician shortage ‘a significant concern’ affecting both providers, patients
As demand for health care providers continues to increase, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported gastroenterology will be among the top fields with the highest predicted provider deficit.
Multidisciplinary care: A team-centered, patient-focused approach to obesity management
Obesity is a complex disease with multifactorial etiology. Multidisciplinary care is an optimal way to support patients with short-term success, long-term weight loss maintenance, and the prevention of obesity-related complications.
Evolution of the heart team: Advances in care delivery after 2 decades of TAVR
One celebrated advance to come from transcatheter aortic valve replacement is the evolution of a multidisciplinary heart team, utilizing skill sets of interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons to drive better outcomes for patients.
Multidisciplinary management approach needed for thyroid eye disease
Thyroid eye disease was first described by Robert James Graves, FRCS, an Irish surgeon who recognized the association of hyperthyroidism with exophthalmos in 1835. Even today, many use Graves’ ophthalmopathy when discussing this disease.
Q&A: Multidisciplinary teams key to managing patients with HF
The CDC estimates that 6 million Americans are diagnosed each year with HF, and that it is responsible for more than 300,000 U.S. deaths per year and costs the U.S. health system more than $30 billion annually.
Checklist for physicians may improve outcomes in cardiac ICU setting
A checklist for cardiac ICU physicians, who often treat both cardiac and noncardiac conditions, may improve outcomes among patients admitted to a cardiac emergency care setting, according to a scientific statement published in Circulation.
ESC guideline on AF emphasizes shared decision-making
A new atrial fibrillation guideline from the European Society of Cardiology advocates collaboration between clinicians and patients for AF treatment options.
Heart team often opposes treating interventionalist’s strategy for multivessel CAD
An analysis of the team approach to decision-making for multivessel CAD indicated that the consensus of a heart team was discordant with patients’ original treating interventionalist in nearly one-third of cases, researchers reported.