Are virtual clinics an applicable model for service improvement in cardiac surgery?

Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2017 Feb 1;51(2):201-202. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezw411.

Authors

Leonidas V Athanasopoulos¹, Thanos Athanasiou²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, USA.
² Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.

PMID: 28043988
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezw411

No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiac surgery; Postoperative assessment; Quality improvement; Service delivery; Virtual clinic.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Cardiac Surgical Procedures / trends*
Heart Diseases / surgery*
Humans
Models, Organizational*
Quality of Health Care / organization & administration*
Remote Consultation / methods*
User-Computer Interface*