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Heart Function Service: Heart Transplant Protocols

                                       Referring Physician Notification Protocol


                                 Frequency                                    Type of notification


                            Cardiology Clinic Visit                               Clinic Letter



                            Listing for Transplant                             Letter / Phone Call
                                                                            (Letter to family as well)



                         Removal from Transplant list                          Letter / Phone Call
                                                                            (Letter to family as well)



                                 Transplant                        Phone Call / In-Patient Progress notes via Fax


                       Initial Discharge after Transplant             Phone Call / Discharge letter / Hospital
                                                                              Discharge Summary

                                                                      (Family notified of continued physician
                                                                      notification via verbal communication)



                              Transplant Clinic                                   Clinic Letter
                                                                      (Family notified of continued physician
                                                                      notification via verbal communication)



                            Cardiac Cath / Biopsy                     (Family notified of continued physician
                                                                      notification via verbal communication)


























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