A specialty-specific, multimodality educational quality improvement initiative to deimplement rarely appropriate myocardial perfusion imaging

Open Heart

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Winchester, David E ^a,b   Schmalfuss, Carsten ^a,b   Helfrich, Christian D ^c   Beyth, Rebecca J ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

appropriate use criteria; de implementation; myocardial perfusion imaging; quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85019395600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20533624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/openhrt-2017-000589     Document Type: Article

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