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Development of paediatric electrophysiology standards for Florida Children’s Medical Services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2014

Jorge McCormack ,
Stephen Seslar ,
Grace Wolff ,
Ming Young ,
Randall Bryant ,
Rodrigo Neghme ,
Steven Fishberger ,
Jamie A. Decker ,
Mary Sokoloski  and
Jason Ho
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Jorge McCormack*
Affiliation:
All Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital of Tampa, Pediatrix Medical Group, United States of America
Stephen Seslar
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Grace Wolff
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, The University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America
Ming Young
Affiliation:
Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, Hollywood, Florida, United States of America
Randall Bryant
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, The University of Florida, Gainesville and Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
Rodrigo Neghme
Affiliation:
Arnold Palmer Children’s Hospital, Orlando, Florida, United States of America
Steven Fishberger
Affiliation:
Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, Florida, United States of America
Jamie A. Decker
Affiliation:
All Children’s Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine, St Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
Mary Sokoloski
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, The University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America
Jason Ho
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, The University of Florida, Gainesville and Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
David Lawrence
Affiliation:
All Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital of Tampa, Pediatrix Medical Group, United States of America
Chrishonda Jenkins
Affiliation:
Florida Children’s Medical Services, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
Kelli Stannard
Affiliation:
Florida Children’s Medical Services, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
Gerold L. Schiebler
Affiliation:
Florida Children’s Medical Services, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
William Blanchard
Affiliation:
Nemours Children’s Cardiac Clinic and Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital, Pensacola, Florida, United States of America
Jeffrey P. Jacobs
Affiliation:
All Children’s Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine, St Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
*
Correspondence to: J. McCormack, MB, MBA, FACC, Department of Pediatric Electrophysiology, Chair, Florida CMS EP Task Force, Pediatrix Medical Group, 601 5th Street South, Suite 711, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, United States of America. Tel: (727) 434-4848; Fax: (727) 374-9298; E-mail: JORGEMC@aol.com
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Abstract

The Florida Children’s Medical Services (CMS) has a long-standing history of ensuring that providers of multiple paediatric subspecialties abide by the highest standards. The cardiac sub-committee has written quality standard documents that participating programmes must meet or exceed. These standards oversee paediatric cardiology services including surgery, catheterisations, and outpatient services. On April, 2012, the cardiac sub-committee decided to develop similar standards in paediatric electrophysiology. A task force was created and began this process. These standards include a catalogue of required and optional equipment, as well as staff and physician credentials. We sought to establish expectations of procedural numbers by practitioner and facility. The task force surveyed the members of the Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society. Finding no consensus, the task force is committed to generate the data by requiring that the CMS participating programmes enrol and submit data to the Multicenter Pediatric and Adult Congenital EP Quality (MAP-IT™) Initiative. This manuscript details the work of the Florida CMS Paediatric Electrophysiology Task Force.

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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 24 , Issue 6: HeartWeek 2014 , December 2014 , pp. 1134 - 1149
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© Cambridge University Press 2014 

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