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Procedural Volume and Outcomes for Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement

Sreekanth Vemulapalli1, John D Carroll1, Michael J Mack1

  • 1From the Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center (S.V.), the Duke Clinical Research Institute (S.V., Z.L., D.D., A.S.K.), and the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University (A.S.K.) - all in Durham, NC; the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora (J.D.C.); Baylor Scott and White Heart Hospital, Plano (M.J.M.), and the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas (D.J.K.) - both in Texas; the Division of Cardiology, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University, Hackensack, NJ (C.E.R.); the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medstar Heart and Vascular Institute and Georgetown University, Washington, DC (V.H.T.); the Division of Cardiology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI (G.H.); the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh (T.G.G.); the Divisions of Cardiology (H.C.H.) and Cardiothoracic Surgery (J.E.B.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and the Philip R. Lee Institute of Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (R.G.B.).

The New England Journal of Medicine
|April 5, 2019
PubMed
Summary

Higher hospital volume for transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) is linked to better patient outcomes. This study found that hospitals performing more TAVR procedures had lower 30-day mortality rates, supporting volume-based policies.

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