Temporal trends in compliance with appropriateness criteria for stress single-photon emission computed tomography sestamibi studies in an academic medical center

American Heart Journal

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 484-489

  Gibbons, Raymond J ^a   Askew, J Wells ^a   Hodge, David ^a   Miller, Todd D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 77649244399     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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