Authors: Sonia B Albanese Lucio V Zannini Gianluigi Perri Giancarlo Crupi Bruno Turinetto Giacomo Pongiglione The Baby Heart Committee
Publish Date: 2014/06/01
Volume: 35, Issue: 7, Pages: 1162-1173
Abstract
Optimization of the relationship between the supply and the demand for medical services should ideally be taken into consideration for the planning within each national Health System Although government national health organizations embrace this policy specifically the contribution of expert committees under the scientific societies’ guarantee in any specific medical field should be advocated for their capability to collect and analyze the data reported by the various national institutions In addition these committees have the competence to analyze the need for the resources necessary to the operation of these centers The field of pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery may represent a model of clinical governance of particular interest with regard to programming and to a definition of the quality standards that may be extended to highly specialized institutions and ideally to the entire Health System The “Baby Heart Project” which represents a model of governance and clinical quality in the field of pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery was born from the spontaneous aggregation of a committee of experts supported by duly appointed Italian Scientific Societies and guided by a national agency for accreditation The ultimate aim is to standardize both procedures and results for future planning within the national Health SystemThe members of Baby Heart Committee is composed by Gaetano D Gargiulo Fernando M Picchio Carlo Pace Napoleone Roberto Formigari Ubaldo Rosati Stephen P Sanders Roberto M Di Donato Stefano Luisi Sandra Giusti Michela Rial Massimo Chessa Mario Carminati Alessandro Frigiola Giuseppe Pomè Giovanni Stellin Ornella Milanesi Massimo Padalino Roberta Biffanti Carlo F Marcelletti† Davide Calvaruso Antonio Rubino Nicoletta Salviato Antonio Capodicasa Stefano Longo Pietro A Abbruzzese Donato Montemurro Laura Odetto
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