Guidelines on the management of valvular heart disease: The Task Force on the Management of Valvular Heart Disease of the European Society of Cardiology
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- 7 June 2006
- journal article
- practice guideline
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Heart Journal
- Vol. 28 (2) , 230-268
- https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehl428
Abstract
Guidelines and Expert Consensus Documents aim to present management recommendations based on all of the relevant evidence on a particular subject in order to help physicians select the best possible management strategies for the individual patient suffering from a specific condition, taking into account the impact on outcome and also the risk–benefit ratio of a particular diagnostic or therapeutic procedure. Numerous studies have demonstrated that patient outcomes improve when guideline recommendations, based on the rigorous assessment of evidence-based research, are applied in clinical practice.Keywords
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