The first decade of appropriate use criteria: Is the glass half empty or half full?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 774-776

  Miller, Todd D ^a   Askew, J Wells ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

appropriate use criteria; cardiac imaging

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE USE CRITERIA; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; MEANINGFUL USE CRITERIA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NOTE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES;

CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS;

EID: 84923371907     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.12.019     Document Type: Editorial

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