TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of paediatric electrophysiology standards for Florida Children's Medical Services
AU - McCormack, Jorge
AU - Seslar, Stephen
AU - Wolff, Grace
AU - Young, Ming
AU - Bryant, Randall
AU - Neghme, Rodrigo
AU - Fishberger, Steven
AU - Decker, Jamie A.
AU - Sokoloski, Mary C
AU - Ho, Jason
AU - Lawrence, David
AU - Jenkins, Chrishonda
AU - Stannard, Kelli
AU - Schiebler, Gerold L.
AU - Blanchard, William
AU - Jacobs, Jeffrey P.
PY - 2014/12/29
Y1 - 2014/12/29
N2 - The Florida Children's Medical Services (CMS) has a long-standing history of ensuring that providers of multiple paediatric subspecialties abide by the highest standards. The cardiac sub-committee has written quality standard documents that participating programmes must meet or exceed. These standards oversee paediatric cardiology services including surgery, catheterisations, and outpatient services. On April, 2012, the cardiac sub-committee decided to develop similar standards in paediatric electrophysiology. A task force was created and began this process. These standards include a catalogue of required and optional equipment, as well as staff and physician credentials. We sought to establish expectations of procedural numbers by practitioner and facility. The task force surveyed the members of the Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society. Finding no consensus, the task force is committed to generate the data by requiring that the CMS participating programmes enrol and submit data to the Multicenter Pediatric and Adult Congenital EP Quality (MAP-IT™) Initiative. This manuscript details the work of the Florida CMS Paediatric Electrophysiology Task Force.
AB - The Florida Children's Medical Services (CMS) has a long-standing history of ensuring that providers of multiple paediatric subspecialties abide by the highest standards. The cardiac sub-committee has written quality standard documents that participating programmes must meet or exceed. These standards oversee paediatric cardiology services including surgery, catheterisations, and outpatient services. On April, 2012, the cardiac sub-committee decided to develop similar standards in paediatric electrophysiology. A task force was created and began this process. These standards include a catalogue of required and optional equipment, as well as staff and physician credentials. We sought to establish expectations of procedural numbers by practitioner and facility. The task force surveyed the members of the Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society. Finding no consensus, the task force is committed to generate the data by requiring that the CMS participating programmes enrol and submit data to the Multicenter Pediatric and Adult Congenital EP Quality (MAP-IT™) Initiative. This manuscript details the work of the Florida CMS Paediatric Electrophysiology Task Force.
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U2 - 10.1017/S1047951114002066
DO - 10.1017/S1047951114002066
M3 - Article
C2 - 25647391
AN - SCOPUS:84927610469
VL - 24
SP - 1134
EP - 1139
JO - Cardiology in the Young
JF - Cardiology in the Young
SN - 1047-9511
IS - 6
ER -