President's page: Appropriateness criteria: Breaking new ground

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2143-2144

  Douglas, Pamela S ^a   Wolk, Michael J ^a   Brindis, Ralph ^b   Hendel, Robert C ^b  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY   (United States)

^b Appropriateness Criteria Working Group

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 28244479003     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2005.10.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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