title: Managing the Patient with Pulmonary Hypertension: Specialty Care Centers, Coordinated Care, and Patient Support.
abstract: Pulmonary hypertension remains a challenging condition to diagnose and manage. Decentralized care for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) has led to shortcomings in the diagnosis and management of PAH. The Pulmonary Hypertension Association-sponsored Pulmonary Hypertension Care Center program is designed to recognize specialty centers capable of providing multidisciplinary and comprehensive care of PAH. Ideally, Pulmonary Hypertension Care Centers will comanage PAH patients with community-based practitioners and address the growing needs of this emerging population of long-term PAH patients.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, CB #8052, St Louis, MO 63110, USA. Electronic address: chakinalam@wustl.edu.
authors.forename: Murali M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Chakinala
authors.affiliation: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, One Barnes Jewish Hospital Plaza, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
authors.forename: Maribeth
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Duncan
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME 04012, USA.
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wirth
mesh_terms: D002300:Cardiac Care Facilities; D019468:Disease Management; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000628:therapy*
keywords: Accreditation; Comanagement; Multidisciplinary care; Pulmonary Hypertension Care Centers