appropriateness criteria
American College of Radiology ACR Appropriateness Criteria
... Potential adverse health effects associated with radiation exposure are an important factor to consider when selecting the appropriate imaging procedure. Because there is a wide range of radiation exposures associated ...
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ACR Appropriateness Criteria Indeterminate Renal Masses EVIDENCE TABLE
... All lesions met strict criteria for the CT diagnosis of benign cyst and subsequently proved to be benign cysts. In addition, CT scanning detected 11 other renal masses, only one of which could be retrospectively ...
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ACR Appropriateness Criteria Chronic Neck Pain EVIDENCE TABLE
... Dx 1 patient To review history, physical exam, and diagnostic imaging findings of a patient with neck pain, occipital headache, and dizziness associated with a past history of cervi[r] ...
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ACR Appropriateness Criteria Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding EVIDENCE TABLE
... Of 804 patients that had SIS, 125 patients met the inclusion criteria. Patient median age was 48 (range 19-82). Also, 77 patients were premenopausal, and 48 patients were postmenopausal. Furthermore, 43 patients ...
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ACR Appropriateness Criteria Post-treatment Follow-up of Renal Cell Carcinoma EVIDENCE TABLE
... At a mean follow-up of 2 years patients with residual or recurrent disease had an overall survival rate of 82.5% and a 2-year metastasis-free survival rate of 97.4% for those with lo[r] ...
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American College of Radiology ACR Appropriateness Criteria EARLY-STAGE NON SMALL-CELL LUNG CANCER
... Lung cancer is the most common malignancy worldwide, with more than one million cases diagnosed yearly [1]. In the United States, 2012 cancer statistics estimated 226,160 new cases and 160,340 deaths due to lung cancer, ...
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American College of Radiology ACR Appropriateness Criteria
... On the basis of promising local control and survival rates and an acceptable toxicity level obtained using 3-D-CRT to a dose of 74 Gy with concurrent chemotherapy, RTOG conducted a pha[r] ...
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Developing Appropriateness Criteria for Pediatric Vascular Access
... the appropriateness of the selection and insertion of VADs that are commonly used across pediatric health systems (hospitalized and ambulatory care) in Australia and the United ...provide appropriateness ...
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REFERRAL APPROPRIATENESS FOR TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY (TTE) BY APPLYING AUC CRITERIA
... Evaluation of appropriate use of transthoracic echocardiography in 1,820 consecutive patients using the 2011 revised appropriate use criteria for echocardiography. Am J Cardiol. 2012;109:1814–7. 13. Ward RP, ...
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Patients with chronic neck pain present
... The authors thank the members of the ACR Expert Panel on Musculoskeletal Imaging who contributed to the ACR Appropriateness Criteria for chronic neck pain: Richard H. Daffner, MD, committee chair; Barbara ...
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Developing criteria for Cesarean Section using the RAND appropriateness method
... RAND Appropriateness Method (RAM) is an explicit approach for the assessment of the appropriateness of ...of appropriateness criteria in surgical care and investigative procedures ...
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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance activity in the United Kingdom: a survey on behalf of the british society of cardiovascular magnetic resonance
... Hendel RC, Patel MR, Kramer CM, et al: ACCF/ACR/SCCT/SCMR/ASNC/ NASCI/SCAI/SIR 2006 appropriateness criteria for cardiac computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: a rep[r] ...
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Development of appropriateness explicit criteria for cataract extraction by phacoemulsification
... explicit criteria is the methodology developed in the 1980s by the RAND-UCLA group ...develop appropriateness criteria ...explicit criteria for cataract extraction following this methodology ...
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Assessment tools for determining appropriateness of admission to acute care of persons transferred from long-term care facilities: a systematic review
... admission to hospital, resource availability/requirement, residents’/families’ wishes, information on the existence of a care plan. Most tools covered less than four aspects, and only six of them included four or more ...
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Adherence to local guidelines for venous thromboprophylaxis: a cross-sectional study of medical inpatients in Argentina
... Both centers share the same VTE prophylaxis CPG. An institutional multidisciplinary group composed of medi- cal members from the departments of emergency, hema- tology, and internal medicine developed and updated the VTE ...
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ADVANCED IMAGING CLINICAL APPROPRIATENESS GUIDELINES. Appropriate Use Criteria: MR Guided Procedures EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2021.
... Requests for multiple diagnostic or therapeutic interventions at the same time will often require a peer-to- peer conversation to understand the individual circumstances that support the medical necessity of performing ...
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Indian Demonetisation Announcement and Insights from Public Reaction : An Exploratory Study
... We check necessary model fit condition using baseline comparison and test the ordinal regression assumptions using multicollinearity test & parallel line test to assess the suitability of our empirical approach. The ...
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On the contextual appropriateness of expression
... To summarize, the quality of the continuations of experiment 1 can be fairly well predicted by a model that takes the similarity in rubato extent, key velocity pattern, articulation, gra[r] ...
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Cross Cultural Perspective towards the Realization of EFL Learners’ Request Appropriateness and Politeness
... acts appropriateness and politeness though actually appropriateness and politeness are two different things, appropriate requests might be impolite to the ...request appropriateness and ...
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Appropriateness of Colonoscopy in a University Hospital
... indicated in 28% of cases as judged by ASGE criteria. The surgeons and internists were significantly more likely to schedule colonoscopies that were generally not accepted compared to gastroenterologists. The ...
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