Both Overuse And Underuse Explain Disparities In Heart Procedures

A new study finds that groups who have often been found to receive less medical care– non-whites, women, and people without private insurance or who are from urban and rural areas– are less likely to undergo coronary revascularization. But the same study finds that this disparity may be in no small part due to the fact…

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Prominent Interventionalists Attack Appropriate Use Criteria For PCI

A group of leading interventional cardiologists has launched an attack on the growing role of appropriate use criteria (AUC) for PCI in the US. They argue that severe flaws in current guidelines render unreliable current attempts to assess the rate of appropriate procedures. In a paper published in  JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, Steven Marso and colleagues (Paul…

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