Changing physician behavior using the AUC: An ongoing challenge

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 867-869

  Gibbons, Raymond J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriate use criteria; Medical education; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

APPROPRAITE USE CRITERIA; BEHAVIOR; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOLOGIST; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; MEDICAL RECORD; NOTE; OUTPATIENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM APPROPRIATENESS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AMBULATORY CARE; CARDIOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; UTILIZATION;

AMBULATORY CARE; CARDIOLOGY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84922604847     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.07.003     Document Type: Editorial

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