Operator volume and outcomes for percutaneous coronary interventions in the USAIt is difficult to draw conclusions that are appropriate everywhere in a large country with varying population density, but as a first step operators and institutions should analyse their own data, according to Bernard J. Gersh and Charanjit S. Rihal.

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In the USA, there is more of everything-more procedures, more centres, and more operators-but the result is also, more low volume operators.'The operators in the UK and Canada have much higher volume than in the United States because there are fewer operators and fewer facilities, whereas here we have many operators and many facilities', explains Charanjit S. Rihal, MD, MBA, FACC, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.