Regional protocols improve quality of care for aortic dissection patients
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 09:56
in Health & Medicine
Using a standardized protocol within a regional health network, a multidisciplinary acute aortic dissection (AAD) program resulted in a 43 percent reduction in time to diagnosis for all AAD patients over the course of five years, based on study results published in the July edition of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal.