Association Between Physicians’ Appropriate Use of Echocardiography and Subsequent Healthcare Use and Outcomes in Patients With Heart Failure

Association Between Physicians’ Appropriate Use of Echocardiography and Subsequent Healthcare Use and Outcomes in Patients With Heart Failure

Background There is little understanding of whether a physician's tendency to order an inappropriate cardiac service is associated with the use of other cardiac services and clinical outcomes in their patients with heart failure (HF). Methods and Results We conducted a secondary analysis of 35...

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Main Authors: Tharmegan Tharmaratnam, Zachary Bouck, Atul Sivaswamy, Harindra C. Wijeysundera, Cherry Chu, Cindy X. Yin, Gillian C. Nesbitt, Jeremy Edwards, Kibar Yared, Brian Wong, Adina Weinerman, Paaladinesh Thavendiranathan, Harry Rakowski, Paul Dorian, Geoff Anderson, Peter C. Austin, David M. Dudzinski, Dennis T. Ko, Rory B. Weiner, R. Sacha Bhatia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
appropriateness criteria
healthcare use
low‐value care
overuse
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.119.013360

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