ACR appropriateness Criteria® on chest pain, suggestive of acute coronary syndrome

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-18

  Mammen, Leena ^a   White, Richard D ^b   Woodard, Pamela K ^c   Carr, J Jeffrey ^d   Earls, James P ^e   Hendel, Robert C ^f,g   Ho, Vincent B ^h   Hoffman, Udo ⁱ   Ryan, Thomas ^g,j   Schoepf, U Joseph ^k   White, Charles S ^l  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e Fairfax Radiological Consultants   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

ⁱ MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

acute chest pain; acute coronary syndrome; angina; Appropriateness Criteria ; cardiac imaging; cardiac risk stratification

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; NITROGEN 13; RUBIDIUM 82;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; APPROPRIATENESS CRITERIA; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART WORK; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NEPHROGENIC SYSTEMIC FIBROSIS; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SAFETY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 84926232105     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2010.08.023     Document Type: Review

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