Target Aortic Stenosis: A National Initiative to Improve Quality of Care and Outcomes for Patients With Aortic Stenosis | Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
To date, assessment of quality of care and outcomes for patients with aortic stenosis (AS) has centered on procedural and postprocedural outcomes as tracked by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapies Registry and Society of Thoracic Surgeons surgical Adult Cardiac S urgery Database. However, there is evidence that symptomatic patients with severe AS are undertreated with aortic valve replacement (AVR), and lack of AVR in such patients is associated
