Designing and Implementing a Heart Team: Institutional Experiences Over the Past 10 Years.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2025
Publication Title
Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions
Abstract
The heart team (HT) is a multidisciplinary team that performs a comprehensive review of patients with complex cardiac issues, collaborates on potential treatment options, and provides the patient with treatment recommendations. Despite strong guideline support and HT's ubiquitous presence, data on how to operationally design, implement, and measure the success of an HT remain limited. This, in turn, has led to wide variability in how HT are instituted. This review examines the development and strategy toward operationalizing HT to help identify potential barriers to HT development and growth. The HT itself is the culmination of a complex care process with the goal of adopting an integrated, patient-centric HT approach to treatment decisions in the care of patients with complex coronary artery disease.
Volume
4
Issue
11
First Page
103918
Last Page
103918
Recommended Citation
Akram MF, Burgess AL, Stickland D, Willekes CL, McNamara RF, McNamara DA. Designing and implementing a heart team: Institutional experiences over the past 10 years. J Soc Cardiovasc Angiogr Interv. 2025;4(11):103918. doi: 10.1016/j.jscai.2025.103918. PMID: 41324042.
DOI
10.1016/j.jscai.2025.103918
ISSN
2772-9303
PubMed ID
41324042
Comments
Frederik Meijer Heart & Vascular Institute