PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kuznar, Wayne
ED  - Jacobs, Alice K.
TI  - MASS COM Trial: Nonemergency PCI Safe without on-Site Surgery Capability
DP  - 2013 May 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 25--26
VI  - 13
IP  - 2
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/13/2/25.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/13/2/25.full
AB  - Nonemergency percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) performed at hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery capability, but with sufficient procedural volume was as safe and effective as PCI performed at hospitals with cardiac surgery services. This article presents results from a Randomized Trial to Compare Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Between Massachusetts Hospitals With Cardiac Surgery-On-Site and Community Hospitals Without Cardiac Surgery-On-Site [MASS COM; Jacobs AK et al. N Engl J Med 2013] which compared the outcomes of nonemergency PCI at 10 hospitals in Massachusetts without on-site cardiac surgery services and 7 hospitals with on-site cardiac surgery services.