Finding value in imaging: What is appropriate?

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 178-185

  Gibbons, Raymond J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; BUDGET; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY;

EID: 40949145361     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2008.01.004     Document Type: Review

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