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Fast-tracking patients through a system is familiar to health care providers. Recently, however, the concept has been applied to areas of healthcare that have otherwise been managed in a more traditional model. Fast-tracking cardiac surgical patients, especially for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) was introduced at Baystate Medical Center in January 1992.
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Monette, L. (1995). Fast Track Recovery of the Cardiac Surgery Patient. In: Cernaianu, A.C., DelRossi, A.J. (eds) Cardiac Surgery. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1925-6_14
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