Quality is a guiding principle for every cardiologist, and ACC.09 is the perfect place to learn about quality initiatives. Hear what those in the trenches have to say about Pay for Performance, report cards and more. Learn relevant and practical approaches to ensuring the quality of care in PCI, heart failure management and peripheral interventions. Come away with the tools and the inspiration to put quality first and act as an advocate for your patients and your profession.
HOT TOPICS
Pay for Performance: Are We Getting Our Money’s Worth?
- The British experience
- The CMS perspective: Pay for Performance will substantially improve quality of care and outcomes
- Will Pay for Performance increase costs and result in unexpected negative effects?
Report Cards in Interventional Cardiology: Bane or Boon?
- Has the NY State reporting system lived up to its promise?
- Unintended consequences: The Michigan/NY experience
- Observations from the trenches: The Massachusetts experience
- Are report cards accurate? A statistician’s perspective
Appropriateness of Cardiovascular Tests and Procedures
- Guidelines, appropriateness criteria and performance measures: Similarities and differences
- Risk assessment: The cornerstone of appropriateness
- Implementation and evaluation of appropriateness
More Highlights
- Challenges in health communications: Meeting and exceeding patient expectations
- Quality in carotid revascularization: Initial insights from the CARE Registry
- Challenges in heart failure quality of care
- The quality of PCI: Are we measuring the right things?
Learn from the Experts
- How to bring quality initiatives into your institution and practice
- Evaluating and improving quality in cardiovascular imaging
- Predicting revascularization outcomes at the bedside: Practical risk adjustment models
- How the cardiovascular center of excellence challenges and reshapes the academic medical center
PLUS
With Full-Access registration, i2 Summit also offers:
- Improving door-to-balloon time in acute MI
- PCI networks
- Lunchtime case reviews with international experts
- Interactive case presentations and discussions throughout the day on clinical strategies of importance to both interventional and general cardiologists