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Protocol‐Driven Best Practices and Cardiogenic Shock Survival in Asian Patients

Journal of the American Heart Association

in successive one thirds, P1, P2, and P3 of patients), paralleling a similar trend in achievement of best practices. Patients achieving all 3 best practices significantly increased from 35.1% (P1) to 52.8% (P3) (P=0.026). A suggestive trend of improving 30day survival was observed (56.8%, 63.9%, and 72.2%

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Need for a Cardiogenic Shock Team Collaborative—Promoting a Team?Based Model of Care to Improve Outcomes and Identify Best Practices

Journal of the American Heart Association

We propose the creation of a Cardiogenic Shock Team Collaborative—akin to the successful Pulmonary Embolism Response Team Consortium—with a goal to promote sharing of care protocols, education of stakeholders, and discovery of how process and performance may influence patient outcomes, quality, resource consumption, and costs of care.

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Robotic Bronchoscopy - Managing Sub-Centimeter Lung Cancer Tumors Together

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Allied Health

Webinar Robotic Bronchoscopy - Managing Sub-Centimeter Lung Cancer Tumors Together cgolden Wed, 04/17/2024 - 10:49 May 9, 2024 Webinar Link: Register for Free In part two of the Robotic Thoracic Surgery webinar series, experts will discuss how a collaborative thoracic and pulmonary robotic approach is expanding thoracic oncology.

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2025 STS Coding Workshop

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Allied Health

17 Description The 2025 STS Coding Workshop: Best Practices for Cardiothoracic Surgery is a 2-day virtual event that provides coders, surgeons, and billing professionals with the latest updates to CPT and physician coding and reimbursement. The program also focuses on physician reimbursement issues affecting the entire specialty.

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STS 2025 Coding Workshop

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Allied Health

17 Description The STS 2025 Coding Workshop: Best Practices for Cardiothoracic Surgery is a 2-day virtual event that provides coders, surgeons, and billing professionals with the latest updates to CPT and physician coding and reimbursement. The program also focuses on physician reimbursement issues affecting the entire specialty.

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2024 STS Coding Workshop

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Allied Health

Friday, February 23 Saturday, February 24 Early Bird registration deadline: January 17 Description The STS 2024 Coding Workshop: Best Practices for Cardiothoracic Surgery is a 2-day virtual event that provides coders, surgeons, and billing professionals with the latest updates to CPT and physician coding and reimbursement.

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2023 STS Coding Workshop

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Allied Health

The STS 2023 Coding Workshop: Best Practices for Cardiothoracic Surgery is a 2-day virtual event that will provide cardiothoracic surgery coders, surgeons, and all billing professionals with the latest coding and reimbursement updates affecting cardiothoracic surgical practices. Missed the event? STS Members receive a discount!