Quality care, access to new technology, the multidisciplinary approach characterising the «care» activity in the CardioMet centre

The CardioMet centre is a transversal multidisciplinary structure set up by the CHUV and the Biology and Medical Faculties to answer the demand to improve the care of patients, to ensure continuous medical training as well as to strengthen communication and collaboration, not only between researchers and clinical staff but also between the different medical disciplines and the different research teams.

The role of CardioMet in patient care is to identify, coordinate and support priority activities in the area of cardiovascular diseases and metabolics.

In the area of care, CardioMet represents a space offered for different professionals within cardiovascular diseases and metabolics to :

• Reflect, discuss and decide on multidisciplinary priority actions;
• To harmonise the care given within its perimeter;
• To adopt and adapt to if necessary the recommendations from Good Medical Practise;
• To rapidly adapt to scientific and technological progress to guarantee patients state of the art medical care while ensuring adequacy between the means to do this and the fixed goals.

In practise, the Executive Committee optimises and coordinates communication and multidisciplinary decisions with the aim of offering the best possible care for patients while creating or reinforcing the care networks, multidisciplinary meetings, symposiums and multidisciplinary consultations.

The Executive Committee identifies the care networks that require priority action.  It sets up multidisciplinary working groups, representing all the actors concerned so as to standardise practises, optimise the selection of diagnostic investigations and therapeutic options to best manage the patient flow. The working groups develop care protocols, identifying needs with their applications and eventual areas that are dysfunctional.

The Executive Committee relies on the Medical Council – the structure that represents not only CardioMet but also all its care partners – to discuss, evaluate and set up care projects.

The CardioMet centre develops a continuous medical training strategy, which gives priority to the themes at the crossroads of traditional disciplines and those at the frontier of transactional research, notably via Multidisciplinary Exchanges about Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases (E3MC).

Salah D. Qanadli, Care Coordinator in the Executive Committee of CardioMet
Salah.Qanadli@chuv.ch