Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

SCAI's mission is to promote excellence in invasive and interventional cardiovascular medicine through physician education and representation, and advancement of quality standards to enhance patient care. SCAI's patient and physician education program, Seconds Count, offers comprehensive information about cardiovascular disease.

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LATEST NEWS
New angiography appropriateness criteria are SCAI's latest "quality tool"

In an interview at the SCAI 2012 Scientific Sessions, Dr Steven Bailey (University of Texas Health Science at San Antonio) told heartwire, "There's been considerable variation across the United States in how operators interpret the current guidelines, so the new appropriate-use criteria were developed to provide some insight into what we know . . . Cardiologists have been particularly interested in trying to improve our practice, and this gives us a quality tool so that we now have a way of looking at what we're doing and seeing how that fits [with the clinical research in the literature]"

>> Read the consensus document which is online now and publishing in print May 29, 2012.

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Free journal:Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
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