FROM: Theodore O. Will, Chief Executive Officer
DATE: Apr 11, 2003
SUBJECT: National Cardiac Teleconference
IPRO CONTACTS:
Marguerite Shaffer, RN, CPHQ, extension 410
You are invited to join us in a national conference call on Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 2:00 pm eastern standard time. The main speaker will be Eric Peterson, MD, MPH, a cardiologist at Duke Medical Center who was recently featured in the New York Times for his ground-breaking work. Dr. Peterson will be discussing the research findings he presented at the most recent AHA Scientific Session, in which he and his group found that hospitals that don't follow AMI care guidelines have significantly higher death rates:
"In their review of more than 250,000 patients who suffered a heart attack in the U.S. in the past two years, Peterson and his colleagues found that the death rate at hospitals that adhere the most to established guidelines have mortality rates of 8.3 percent, compared to 15.3 percent for those hospitals least likely to adhere to the guidelines. The researchers measured how many of the patients died while in the hospital."
We are privileged to have the opportunity to share these findings with you before they have been published. For more information on this research, you may check the following links:
To join us on April 30, simply complete the bottom portion of this invitation and fax or email this form back to Marguerite Shaffer at 516-326-0434 or nypro.mshaffer@sdps.org by Friday April 25, 2003.
We will send you the toll-free call in number and related call materials by April 23rd. Please feel free to make copies of the packet for each of the participants from your facility. There is no cost for participating in this call and the toll-free number can be accessed from anywhere in the United States. If you have not received materials by April 28th, or should you have any questions regarding this memorandum, please call Marguerite Shaffer at 516-326-7767, extension 410.