What is it about?
A review of the appropriate use of transthoracic echocardiography at a tertiary hospital
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Why is it important?
Inappropriate testing and overuse of diagnostic tools equates to increased health care costs and associated patient harm in the form of subjecting them patients to the risks of the test itself and then to further subsequent additional tests and procedures We need to control and review medical imaging overuse. Transthoracic echocardiography is a relatively benign test and is vulnerable to exploitation and overuse.
Perspectives
This study was important because the appropriate use criteria has had little application outside the USA.
Dr Anthony W De Nardo
Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service
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This page is a summary of: Utilisation of echocardiography and application of the appropriate use criteria at a large tertiary hospital in Queensland, Australasian Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, May 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/ajum.12014.
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