Appropriate use of myocardial perfusion imaging in a veteran population: Profit motives and professional liability concerns

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 1381-1383

  Winchester, David E ^a,b   Meral, Ryan ^b   Ryals, Scott ^b   Beyth, Rebecca J ^a,b   Shaw, Leslee J ^b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LEGAL LIABILITY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PHYSICIAN SELF-REFERRAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFIT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VETERAN;

CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OBESITY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VETERANS;

EID: 84880670629     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.953     Document Type: Letter

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