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.