Rising rates of cardiac procedures in the United States and Canada: too much of a good thing?

What it found

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Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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3. Age difference explains gender difference in cardiac intervention rates after acute myocardial infarction.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2010
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4. The risks of inappropriateness in cardiac imaging.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2009
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5. Economic analysis including long-term risks and costs of alternative diagnostic strategies to evaluate patients with chest pain.Cardiovascular ultrasound · 2008
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7. Cardiac intervention rates for older patients with acute myocardial infarction in the United States and Ontario, 2003-2013: a retrospective cohort study.CMAJ open
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Temporal trends in the utilization of diagnostic testing and treatments for cardiovascular disease in the United States, 1993-2001.2006
• Comment on
  Proliferation of cardiac technology in Canada: a challenge to the sustainability of Medicare.2006

Authors and funding

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