Inpatient Echocardiography Use for Common Cardiovascular Conditions

Quinn R Pack; Aruna Priya; Tara C Lagu; Penelope S Pekow; Joshua P Schilling; William L Hiser; Peter K Lindenauer

doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.032256

Inpatient Echocardiography Use for Common Cardiovascular Conditions

Circulation. 2018 Apr 17;137(16):1745-1747. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.032256.

Authors

Quinn R Pack^{1

2

3}, Aruna Priya², Tara C Lagu^{2

4

3}, Penelope S Pekow⁵, Joshua P Schilling^{6

2}, William L Hiser^{6

2}, Peter K Lindenauer^{2

4

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (Q.R.P., J.P.S., W.L.H.) Quinn.PackMD@baystatehealth.org.
² Institute for Healthcare Delivery and Population Science and Department of Medicine (Q.R.P., A.P., T.C.L., J.P.S., W.L.H., P.K.L.).
³ Unversity of Massachusetts Medical School at Baystate, Springfield (Q.R.P., T.C.L., P.K.L.).
⁴ Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA. Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester (T.C.L., P.K.L.).
⁵ School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (P.S.P.).
⁶ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (Q.R.P., J.P.S., W.L.H.).

No abstract available

Keywords: hospitalization; myocardial infarction; stroke; utilization.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Cardiology Service, Hospital / trends*
Cardiovascular Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
Databases, Factual
Echocardiography / trends*
Humans
Inpatients*
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / trends*
Predictive Value of Tests
Time Factors
United States

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding