Patient selection for diagnostic coronary angiography and hospital-level percutaneous coronary intervention appropriateness: Insights from the national cardiovascular data registry

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1630-1639

  Bradley, Steven M ^a,b,c   Spertus, John A ^d   Kennedy, Kevin F ^d   Nallamothu, Brahmajee K ^e   Chan, Paul S ^d   Patel, Manesh R ^f   Bryson, Chris L ^g   Malenka, David J ^h   Rumsfeld, John S ^a,b,c  

^a Eastern Colorado Veterans Health Care System   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; AGED; ANGINA, STABLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; UNITED STATES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA, STABLE; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84907979541     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.3904     Document Type: Article

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