Cardiac screening with electrocardiography, stress echocardiography, or myocardial perfusion imaging: Advice for high-value care from the american college of physicians

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 438-447

  Chou, Roger ^a   Qaseem, Amir ^b   Biebelhausen, John ^c   Desai, Sanjay ^c   Feinberg, Lawrence ^c   Horwitch, Carrie A ^c   Humphrey, Linda L ^c   McLean, Robert M ^c   Mir, Tanveer P ^c   Moyer, Darilyn V ^c   Skeff, Kelley M ^c   Tape, Thomas G ^c   Wiese, Jeffrey ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LOW RISK PATIENT; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SMOKING; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SUDDEN DEATH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); ADVERSE EFFECTS; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MASS SCREENING; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; UTILIZATION;

ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84924905298     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M14-1225     Document Type: Review

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