Why the study?
The evolution of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) created a need for consensus on operator and institutional criteria to ensure quality care.
What are the operator and institutional requirements for instituting and maintaining a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) program?
What are the operator and institutional requirements for instituting and maintaining a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) program?
This multisociety consensus statement defines the foundational operator and institutional requirements for establishing and maintaining a quality TAVR program.
Institutions should apply these criteria to evaluate TAVR program viability; reinforces multisociety standards for quality and sustainability.
The granting of staff privileges to physicians is an important mechanism to ensure quality care.The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requires that medical staff privileges be based on professional criteria specified in medical staff bylaws.Physicians are charged with defining the criteria that constitute professional competence and with evaluating their peers accordingly.With the evolution of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), an impor-tant opportunity arises for both cardiologists and surgeons to come together to identify the criteria for performing these procedures.The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) have, therefore, joined together to provide recommendations for institutions to assess their potential for instituting and/or maintaining a transcatheter valve program.This article concerns TAVR.As TAVR is in its infancy,
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Tommaso et al. (2012) conducted a review in Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Operator and institutional requirements for TAVR was evaluated. The SCAI, AATS, ACCF, and STS provide expert consensus recommendations for institutions to assess their potential for instituting and/or maintaining a transcatheter aortic valve replacement program.
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