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ArticleCatheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions2020

Prioritizing elective cardiovascular procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic: The cardiovascular medically necessary, time-sensitive procedure scorecard.

Sergio Waxman, Aakash Garg, Sabino Torre, Najam Wasty, Marc Roelke, Marc Cohen, Arash Salemi

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Article in Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sergio WaxmanDivision of Cardiology, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6896-9211
Aakash GargDivision of Cardiology, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
Sabino TorreDivision of Cardiology, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, New Jersey, USA.
Najam WastyDivision of Cardiology, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
Marc RoelkeDivision of Cardiology, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
Marc CohenDivision of Cardiology, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
Arash SalemiDivision of Cardiology, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center · USSaint Barnabas Medical Center · US

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Abstract

backgroundFollowing the surge of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, government regulations, and recommendations from professional societies have conditioned the resumption of elective surgical and cardiovascular (CV) procedures on having strategies to prioritize cases because of concerns regarding the availability of sufficient resources and the risk of COVID-19 transmission.

objectivesWe evaluated the use of a scoring system for standardized triage of elective CV procedures.

methodsWe retrospectively reviewed records of patients scheduled for elective CV procedures that were prioritized ad hoc to be either performed or deferred when New Jersey state orders limited the performance of elective procedures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients in both groups were scored using our proposed CV medically necessary, time-sensitive (MeNTS) procedure scorecard, designed to stratify procedures based on a composite measure of hospital resource utilization, risk of COVID-19 exposure, and time sensitivity.

resultsA total of 109 scheduled elective procedures were either deferred (n = 58) or performed (n = 51). The median and mean cumulative CV MeNTS scores for the group of performed cases were significantly lower than for the deferred group (26 (interquartile range (IQR) 22-31) vs. 33 (IQR 28-39), p < .001, and 26.4 (SE 0.34) vs. 32.9 (SE 0.35), p < .001, respectively).

conclusionsThe CV MeNTS procedure score was able to stratify elective cases that were either performed or deferred using an ad hoc strategy. Our findings suggest that the CV MeNTS procedure scorecard may be useful for the fair triage of elective CV cases during the time when available capacity may be limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Clinical Decision-MakingCOVID-19Decision Support TechniquesPandemicsCardiac CatheterizationCardiovascular DiseasesHealth Services Needs and DemandHumansNew JerseyRetrospective StudiesRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsTime-to-TreatmentTriageappropriate usehealthcare policyrisk stratification

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