The Association of Hospital-Cardiologist Integration with Patient Outcomes, Care Quality, and Utilization

In this podcast, Dr. Valentin Fuster discusses a study comparing patient outcomes and care quality between cardiologists who transitioned from independent practice to hospital employment and those who remained independent. Despite a significant rise in hospital-employed cardiologists, the study reveals minimal differences in patient outcomes and care quality, challenging the assumption that hospital employment leads to better healthcare results.

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Each week, Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, MACC, records free podcasts highlighting journal findings. To keep clinicians updated on the most important science emerging in clinical and translational cardiology, Dr. Fuster provides an overview of the weekly edition from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), as well as a short summary of each manuscript. Encompassing JACC and nine cardiovascular specialty journals, the JACC family of journals rank among the top cardiovascular peer-reviewed journals in the world for scientific impact.