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The Heart Team: A Gold Standard of Care

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The concept of the Heart Team is central to the development, implementation and sustained success of innovative processes of care to ensure access and quality of the treatment of heart valve disease. The objective of a Heart Team approach is to leverage the collective expertise of multiple disciplines to ensure patients have the best possible outcomes and experiences. Throughout patients’ trajectories of care—including their pre-, peri-, and post-procedure and follow-up touchpoints, nurses and allied health professionals play an essential role in the assessment, coordination, intervention and monitoring of this complex patient group. Working in close collaboration with cardiology, cardiac surgery, cardiac imaging and heart function specialists, anesthesiologists, front line nurses and care providers, and administrators, nurses and allied health professionals lead the development of new ways of caring for patients, quality improvement, and patient-centered care. Strategies to strengthen their unique contributions are essential to continue to move programs forward, and make the Heart Team approach a truly effective and patient-centered approach to support the complex needs of people living with heart valve disease.

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Lauck, S.B., Smith, A. (2022). The Heart Team: A Gold Standard of Care. In: Hawkey, M.C., Lauck, S.B. (eds) Valvular Heart Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86233-6_3

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