Personal and Professional Characteristics of U.S. Dual-Boarded Critical Care Cardiologists in 2015.
Crit Care Med
; 45(12): e1292-e1296, 2017 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-29023259
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
Evaluate the characteristics of U.S. physicians who are board certified in cardiology and critical care medicine ("dual-boarded cardiologists").DESIGN:
Retrospective cross-sectional study using a comprehensive database of licensed U.S. physicians linked to Medicare claims.SETTING:
The United States.SUBJECTS:
Dual-boarded cardiologists. MEASUREMENTS AND MAINRESULTS:
We used a comprehensive physician database to identify all physicians who were board certified in cardiology and critical care medicine before July 2015. We assessed physicians' characteristics and compared dual-boarded cardiologists with and without active board certification in critical care medicine and estimated the maximum proportion of 2014 Medicare Cardiac ICU admissions treated by dual-boarded cardiologists. Among 473 dual-boarded cardiologists, 16 (3.4%) were women; 468 (99%) and 85 (18%) maintained active board certification in cardiology and critical care medicine, respectively. Overall, 98 dual-boarded cardiologists (21%) submitted 1,215 total claims for critical care services in 2014. Compared to dual-boarded cardiologists without active board certification in critical care medicine, those with active certification had more publications (median publications 6.5 vs 3.0; p = 0.002), were more likely to be professors (22.3% vs 9.5%; p = 0.003), and were more likely to bill Medicare for critical care services (29% vs 17.8%; p = 0.002). We estimated that no more than 0.47% of all 2014 Medicare Cardiac ICU admissions were treated by a dual-boarded cardiologist.CONCLUSIONS:
Dual-boarded cardiologists appear to deliver a small proportion of all Cardiac ICU services received by Medicare beneficiaries. Optimizing the modern Cardiac ICU workforce will require greater efforts to promote and support the training of dual-boarded cardiologists.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Certificação
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Cuidados Críticos
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Cardiologistas
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Crit Care Med
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Marrocos