Abstract:Quality assurance and improvement have increasingly been the focus of health care providers, third-party payers, and patients. Because cardiovascular procedures are common, easily identifiable with claims data, and account for a relatively large proportion of health care expenditures, particular attention has been paid to quality assurance in the setting of the diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization laboratory. The structure, process, and outcomes domains of quality measurement in the interventi… Show more
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