Costs and Clinical Outcomes in Individuals Without Known Coronary Artery Disease Undergoing Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography from an Analysis of Medicare Category III Transaction Codes

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 672-678

  Min, James K ^a   Shaw, Leslee J ^b   Berman, Daniel S ^c   Gilmore, Amanda ^d   Kang, Ning ^d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Health Benchmarks Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OFFICE VISITS; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50949117537     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.04.045     Document Type: Article

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