An audit tool for assessing the appropriateness of carotid endarterectomy

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-7

  Kennedy, James ^a,b   Quan, Hude ^b   Feasby, Thomas E ^c   Ghali, William A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; RATING SCALE; TREATMENT INDICATION; ALGORITHM; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CAROTID STENOSIS; CLINICAL AUDIT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UTILIZATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL AUDIT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 4544219999     PISSN: 14726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-4-17     Document Type: Article

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