Trends in outpatient transthoracic echocardiography: Impact of appropriateness criteria publication

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 740-746

  Rahimi, Ali R ^a   York, Meghan ^a   Gheewala, Neil ^a   Markson, Larry ^a   Hauser, Thomas H ^a   Manning, Warren J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriateness; Cardiac imaging; Echocardiography; Trends; Utilization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 79960754498     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.03.030     Document Type: Article

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