A Cross Roads in Care Delivery: Angioplasty With Off-Site Surgical Support
- Topics:
- Healthcare Services
- Tags:
- Benefits,
- Healthcare,
- Human Resources,
- Leadership,
- Management,
- Treatment
- Source:
- Corazon Consulting
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Overview: In order to provide more comprehensive cardiovascular services and increase access to state-of-the-art treatment, community hospitals without open heart surgery are implementing angioplasty programs. This has become an increasingly popular practice due to the substantial clinical benefits, but a controversial one as well. In light of such trends, angioplasty with off-site surgical support has received much scrutiny and attention from many cardiovascular program leaders over the past year. The result is two differing perspectives about how to offer this progressive treatment while maintaining the viability of community programs and their tertiary counterparts.
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Format: PDF | Size: 137KB | Date: Aug 2004 | Pages: 1




