Appropriateness use of coronary angiography in patients with suspected ischemic heart disease in Brazil.
The use of coronary angiography has undergone extraordinary expansion during the last decade but an inappropriate rate of its utilization has been reported in 0-58% of cases worldwide. In this study we showed that in a Health Care Organization in Brazil, 65.5% of elective coronary angiographies was allocated in class IIb and III of the AHA/ACC guidelines for coronary angiography for which usefulness/efficacy is less well established or is not useful or may be harmful.
Gontijo
Roberto Veloso
RV
Proietti
Fernando Augusto
FA
Amaral
Carlos Faria Santos
CF
de Rezende
Nilton Alves
NA
D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D006801:Humans; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000145:classification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*