Implementation of a High-Value, Evidence-Based Care Program: Impact and Opportunities for Learning Organizations.

Goal: Value-based care is not simply a matter of cost, but also one of outcomes and harms per dollar spent. This definition encompasses three key components: healthcare delivery that is organized around patients' medical conditions, costs and outcomes that are actively and consistently measured, and information technology that enables the other two components. Our objective in this project was to implement and measure a systemwide high-value, evidence-based care initiative with five pillars of high-value practices.

Multidisciplinary Approach to Pulmonary Embolism and the Role of the Pulmonary Embolism Response Team.

Purpose Of Review: Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is a leading cause of cardiovascular death and morbidity, and presents a major burden to healthcare systems. The field has seen rapid growth with development of innovative clot reduction technologies, as well as ongoing multicenter trials that may completely revolutionize care of PE patients. However, current paucity of robust clinical trials and guidelines often leave individual physicians managing patients with acute PE in a dilemma.

Rapid Diagnosis of Acute Type A Aortic Dissection Through Multimodality Imaging.

• TAAD is a rare and potentially fatal disease. • Aortic dissections have a wide range of common risk factors. • This condition can mistakenly present similar to other acute coronary syndromes.