Study Uncovers Confusion About When To Use An Important Heart Test

Appropriate use criteria (AUC) are designed to help make sure that medical procedures and interventions are performed in people most likely to benefit and, in turn, are not performed in people unlikely to gain benefit. Now a new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that the AUC for one very widely performed procedure, diagnostic cardiac catheterization, can provide a very rough indication of when it should and should not be performed, but that a great deal more work needs to be done before the criteria can be considered broadly reliable. … Click here to read the full post More…

Source: CardioBrief - March 9, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Interventional Cardiology & Surgery Prevention, Epidemiology & Outcomes appropriate use criteria catheterization coronary artery disease diagnosis Source Type: blogs