Appropriate Use Criteria. Another Step Forward But Still a Ways to Go

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 163-165

  Miller, Todd D ^a   Askew, J Wells ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

appropriateness criteria; diagnostic testing; radionuclide imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 73049114735     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.11.015     Document Type: Editorial

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