Application of the Appropriateness Criteria for Echocardiography in an Academic Medical Center

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 267-274

  Aggarwal, Niti R ^a   Wuthiwaropas, Punsak ^a   Karon, Barry L ^a   Miller, Fletcher A ^a   Pellikka, Patricia A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriateness; Echocardiography; Imaging; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; OUTPATIENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 77649233812     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.11.005     Document Type: Article

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