Behavioral factors, bias, and practice guidelines in the decision to use percutaneous coronary interventions for stable coronary artery disease

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1573-1575

  Moscucci, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BEHAVIOR; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 34548044020     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.15.1573     Document Type: Editorial

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