Temporal Trends in Internal vs. External Referrals for TAVR in a Large Academic Center: Patients Characteristics and Outcomes

Table 3

Referral patterns for 491 patients undergoing TAVR at a single institution.

	2014		2015		2016		2017		2018		2019		2020		Total
External cardiologist	1	20.0%	7	29.2%	23	30.7%	53	53.0%	46	36.0%	59	48.4%	21	56.8%	210
Internal cardiologist	3	60.0%	14	58.3%	46	61.3%	40	40.0%	74	57.8%	60	49.2%	13	35.1%	250
Procedure	0	0.0%	3	12.5%	5	6.7%	5	5.0%	8	6.3%	3	2.5%	2	5.4%	26
Self	1	20.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	1	1.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	1	2.7%	3
Unknown	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	1	1.3%	1	1.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	2
Total	5		24		75		100		128		122		37		491