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Impact of a structured referral algorithm on the ability to monitor adherence to appropriate use criteria for transthoracic echocardiography

BACKGROUND: Many free-form-text referral requisitions for transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) provide insufficient information to adequately evaluate their adherence to Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC). We developed a structured referral requisition algorithm based on requisition deficiencies identif...

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Autores principales: Promislow, Steven, Abunassar, Joseph G., Banihashemi, Behnam, Chow, Benjamin J., Dwivedi, Girish, Maftoon, Kasra, Burwash, Ian G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4986360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27528386
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12947-016-0075-2