Why the study?
Does a multidisciplinary Heart Team approach improve decision-making and treatment selection in patients with cardiovascular disease?
Does a multidisciplinary Heart Team approach improve decision-making and treatment selection in patients with cardiovascular disease?
A multidisciplinary Heart Team approach improves the decision-making process and potentially clinical results for patients with cardiovascular disease.
Agreement in treatment selection among the cardiac surgeon, cardiologist and Heart Team appears to be low in the initial experience. Subsequently, it seems to steadily increase over time up to a limit, when it reaches a plateau of stable results. Heart Team clinical cases discussion, based on both guidelines and multidisciplinary experience, represents a key step in defining the best patient treatment pathway, potentially improving the decision-making process and clinical results.
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Mazza et al. (2023) studied this question.
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