Heart Procedure Risk Assessment Tool Available.A simple new tool may allow physicians to give the hundreds of thousands of patients who undergo certain heart procedures each year more information about the risks. Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. of Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium, an eight-hospital team coordinated by the University of Michigan Health System The medical center also includes the Michigan Health Corporation, through which UMHS partners with other medical centers and hospital to provide specialized care throughout Michigan. , developed a first-of-its-kind statistical model to predict a heart patient's risk of death from procedures like balloon angioplasty balloon angioplasty: see under angioplasty. or stenting Stent´ing n. 1. An opening in a wall in a coal mine. . Unlike previous risk estimates that were based on general information, the model can customize risk assessment based on a patient's own individual medical history. "With this tool that looks specifically at what an individual patient's various medical complications might be, we can give the patients and their families a mathematically precise assessment of risk based on proper weighing of risk factors," says Mauro Moscucci, MD. James A. Hawkins is Publisher of Healthcare Briefings, a newsletter available in print, on cassette A removable magnetic tape storage module that contains supply and takeup reels (hubs) in the same housing. Most audio tapes and videotapes use cassettes as well as backup tape technologies such as DAT, 8mm and Magstar MP (see below). , via fax, and on computer disk. He can be reached at 800/414-2062. |
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