Appropriateness criteria are an imprecise measure for repeat echocardiograms

Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 131-135

  Ghatak, Abhijit ^a   Pullatt, Raja ^a   Vyse, Stuart ^b   Silverman, David I ^a  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

appropriateness; echocardiography; indication; utilization

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AORTA DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSPNEA; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MURMUR; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VALVE REGURGITATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOCARDITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SHOCK; STROKE; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA INDUCED CARDIOMYOPATHY; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CONNECTICUT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79551522279     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2010.01302.x     Document Type: Article

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