Clinical Benefits of Noninvasive Testing: Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography as a Test Case

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 305-315

  Min, James K ^a   Hachamovitch, Rory ^a   Rozanski, Alan ^a   Shaw, Leslee J ^a   Berman, Daniel S ^a   Gibbons, Raymond ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

computed tomography; health policy; radionuclide imaging

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE TEST; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICARE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SAFETY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77649269682     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.04.017     Document Type: Article

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