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Article: Sustaining Excellence in All Aspects of Cardiac Care Rare But Lives Could Be Saved If More Patients Were Treated at Top-Performing Hospitals.
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- April 28, 2009
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Cardiac Data Solutions conducting further research to identify which processes of care differentiate top-performing hospitals
ATLANTA, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- While sustained excellence in cardiac care is rare, hospitals that excel in all three major areas of cardiac care -- acute myocardial infarction (AMI), percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) -- have more cardiac patient admissions and lower average risk-adjusted mortality rates. That according to new research funded and conducted by Cardiac Data Solutions, Inc. and presented at the American Heart Association's 10th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and ...