Compliance with appropriate use criteria for cardiac radionuclide imaging

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 165-167

  Beller, George A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AREA UNDER CURVE; CARDIOLOGY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIUM; PERFUSION; RADIOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 77953318949     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-010-9205-7     Document Type: Editorial

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