Are cardiologists truly better at appropriately selecting patients for stress myocardial perfusion imaging?

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 285-286

  Doukky, Rami ^a,b   Hayes, Kathleen ^b   Frogge, Nathan ^b  

^a Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriate use criteria (AUC); Cardiologist; Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI); Primary care physician (PCP); Provider specialty; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; APPROPRIATE USE CRITERIA; CARDIOLOGIST; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOCUMENTATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS; THORAX PAIN; UNITED STATES; CARDIOLOGY; EXERCISE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOLOGY; COHORT STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84906316769     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.06.087     Document Type: Article

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