The Alberta Cardiac Access Collaborative: Improving the Cardiac Patient Journey
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The Alberta Cardiac Access Collaborative: improving the cardiac patient journey.
The Alberta Cardiac Access Collaborative (ACAC) is a joint initiative of Alberta's health system to improve access to adult cardiac services across the patient journey. ACAC has created new care delivery models and implemented best practices across Alberta in four streams across the continuum: heart attack, patient navigation, heart failure and arrhythmia. Emergency medical providers, nurses, p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Healthcare Quarterly
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1929-6347
DOI: 10.12927/hcq.2009.21104