Quality assurance in interventional cardiology

摘要

The British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS) exists to aid the development and practice of percutaneous cardiac intervention in the UK. As such it has responsibilities to individuals who practise as well as responsibilities to their patients, departments, and hospitals. Quality assurance, peer review, and individual audit highlight the tensions between the society's responsibilities to individual practitioners and its wider responsibility to patients more sharply than any other activity of the society. However BCIS council strongly believes that proper quality assurance is the most effective way it has of supporting individual operators and departments throughout the UK.