March 9th, 2015
Appropriate Use Criteria for Diagnostic Catheterization are Weak
Larry Husten, PHD
Appropriate use criteria (AUC) are designed to help make sure that medical procedures and interventions are performed in patients most likely to benefit and, in turn, are not performed on 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 […]
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