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Monsel, Antoine; Le Corre, Marine; Deransy, Romain; Brisson, Hélène; Arbelot, Charlotte; Lu, Qin; Golmard, Jean-Louis; Langeron, Olivier; Rouby, Jean-Jacques
doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002764pmid: 29019852
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Blumenthal, Daniel M.; Mikhael, Bassem; Lawler, Patrick R.; Yeh, Robert W.; Metlay, Joshua P.; Dudzinski, David M.
doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002766pmid: 29023259
Objectives: Evaluate the characteristics of U.S. physicians who are board certified in cardiology and critical care medicine (“dual-boarded cardiologists”). Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study using a comprehensive database of licensed U.S. physicians linked to Medicare claims. Setting: The United States. Subjects: Dual-boarded cardiologists. Measurements and Main Results: We used a comprehensive physician database to identify all physicians who were board certified in cardiology and critical care medicine before July 2015. We assessed physicians’ characteristics and compared dual-boarded cardiologists with and without active board certification in critical care medicine and estimated the maximum proportion of 2014 Medicare Cardiac ICU admissions treated by dual-boarded cardiologists. Among 473 dual-boarded cardiologists, 16 (3.4%) were women; 468 (99%) and 85 (18%) maintained active board certification in cardiology and critical care medicine, respectively. Overall, 98 dual-boarded cardiologists (21%) submitted 1,215 total claims for critical care services in 2014. Compared to dual-boarded cardiologists without active board certification in critical care medicine, those with active certification had more publications (median publications: 6.5 vs 3.0; p = 0.002), were more likely to be professors (22.3% vs 9.5%; p = 0.003), and were more likely to bill Medicare for critical care services (29% vs 17.8%; p = 0.002). We estimated that no more than 0.47% of all 2014 Medicare Cardiac ICU admissions were treated by a dual-boarded cardiologist. Conclusions: Dual-boarded cardiologists appear to deliver a small proportion of all Cardiac ICU services received by Medicare beneficiaries. Optimizing the modern Cardiac ICU workforce will require greater efforts to promote and support the training of dual-boarded cardiologists.
Li, Xiaopeng; Vargas Buonfiglio, Luis G.; Adam, Ryan J.; Stoltz, David A.; Zabner, Joseph; Comellas, Alejandro P.
doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002720pmid: 28953499
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