The modified heart team protocol facilitated the revascularization decision-making quality in complex coronary artery disease.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

A lack of standardization in heart team implementation potentially leads to suboptimal decision-making quality, and we previously established a modified heart team protocol to improve the decision-making quality. The present trial was to validate the effect of the modified heart team implementation protocol on improving the decision-making quality versus the conventional protocol in complex coronary artery disease (CAD).

Methods

Eligible interventional cardiologists, cardiac surgeons and non-interventional cardiologists were randomly allocated to the intervention or control arm and established 12 heart teams in each arm. The 12 heart teams in each arm were randomly divided into 6 pairs, and 480 historic cases with complex CAD into 6 sets of 80 cases. In each arm,

SUBMITTER: Ma H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11845249 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature