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.

Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 9, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Larry Husten Source Type: news