Does the revised appropriate use criteria for echocardiography represent an improvement over the initial criteria? a comparison between the 2011 and the 2007 appropriateness use criteria for echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 228-233

  Parikh, Puja B ^a   Asheld, John ^a   Kort, Smadar ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriateness use criteria; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORACIC AORTA SURGERY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 84856078429     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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