BETHESDA CONFERENCE REPORT 28th Bethesda Conference: Practice Guidelines and the Quality of Care*

BETHESDA CONFERENCE REPORT 33rd Bethesda Conference: Preventive Cardiology: How Can We Do Better?*

*The recommendations set forth in this report are those of the conference participants and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the American College of Cardiology Foundation. When citing this document, the American College of Cardiology Foundation would appreciate the following citation format: Preventive cardiology: how can we do better? 582 Fletcher et al.

Pakistan International Biennial Conference on ‘Ramadan and Health’ (9th – 11th October 2015; 26th – 28th Dhul Hijjah 1436 H)

Swiss-CHAT: Citizens Discuss Priorities for Swiss Health Insurance Coverage

Background As universal health coverage becomes the norm in many countries, it is important to determine public priorities regarding benefits to include in health insurance coverage. We report results of participation in a decision exercise among residents of Switzerland, a high-income country with a long history of universal health insurance and deliberative democracy.   Methods We adapted the...

Bethesda Conference #36 and the European Society of Cardiology Consensus Recommendations revisited a comparison of U.S. and European criteria for eligibility and disqualification of competitive athletes with cardiovascular abnormalities.

Aspiration to reduce the risks of athletic field deaths prompted the American Heart Association and European Society of Cardiology (ESC) to establish consensus guidelines for eligibility/disqualification decisions in competitive athletes with cardiovascular abnormalities. Since 2005, the Bethesda Conference #36 and the ESC consensus documents have been relied upon by physicians from different p...

Cardiology's workforce shortage: implications for patient care and research.

The common wisdom at the end of the 20th century was that the United States was training too many specialists, including cardiologists.1 By 2001, however, there was increasing evidence that the supply of cardiologists was not meeting the growing demand. That year, as presidentelect of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), I appointed a task force to evaluate cardiology workforce. The task f...