Cardiac CT angiography compared with myocardial perfusion stress testing on downstream resource utilization

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 101-109

  Cheezum, Michael K ^a   Hulten, Edward A ^a   Taylor, Allen J ^b   Gibbs, Barnett T ^a   Hinds, Sidney R ^a   Feuerstein, Irwin M ^a   Stack, Aaron L ^a   Villines, Todd C ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac computed tomography; Coronary artery disease; Myocardial perfusion stress; Resource utilization; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION STRESS TEST; PRETEST POSTTEST CONTROL GROUP DESIGN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79953730263     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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