Educational initiatives for quality improvement projects: Can you teach an old dog New Tricks?

Circulation

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 471-473

  Arrighi, James A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC IMAGING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST CONTROL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TEACHING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 79951671054     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.008904     Document Type: Review

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