Outcomes assessment and disease management strategies in diagnostic imaging: creating value and quality with nuclear cardiology.
Noninvasive testing in cardiology may be used to control the initial diagnostic costs as well as to limit expensive testing to only those at highest risk. Outcome data may be used to profile accuracy for individual laboratories to assure quality of the nuclear test data in altering patient management.
Shaw
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Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Hachamovitch
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Thomas
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D003363:Cost Control; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019468:Disease Management; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009683:Nuclear Medicine / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States