Rating the appropriateness of coronary angiography - Do practicing physicians agree with an expert panel and with each other?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 338, Issue 26 I, 1998, Pages 1896-1904

  Ayanian, John Z ^a,b   Landrum, Mary Beth ^b   Normand, Sharon Lise T ^b,c   Guadagnoli, Edward ^b   Mcneil, Barbara J ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST CONTROL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; CARDIOLOGY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DATA COLLECTION; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0032566038     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199806253382608     Document Type: Article

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