TY - JOUR
T1 - Adherence to the 2010 American college of cardiology foundation appropriate use criteria for cardiac computed tomography
T2 - Quality analysis at a tertiary referral center
AU - Sidhu, Manavjot S.
AU - Lumish, Heidi
AU - Uthamalingam, Shanmugam
AU - Engel, Leif Christopher
AU - Abbara, Suhny
AU - Brady, Thomas J.
AU - Hoffmann, Udo
AU - Ghoshhajra, Brian B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2016 by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Background: In November 2010, the American College of Cardiology Foundation published revised appropriateness criteria (AC) for cardiac computed tomography (CT). We evaluated adherence to these criteria by providers of different subspecialties at a tertiary referral center. Methods: Reports of 383 consecutive patients who underwent clinically indicated cardiac CT from December 1, 2010, to July 31, 2011, were reviewed by physicians with appropriate training in cardiac CT. Scans were classified as appropriate, inappropriate, or uncertain based on the revised 2010 AC. Studies that did not fall under any of the specified indications were labeled as unclassified. Adherence to the AC was also analyzed as a function of provider type. Research scans were excluded from this analysis. Results: Three hundred eight exams (80%)were classified as appropriate; 26 (7%), as inappropriate; 30 (8%), as uncertain; and 19 (5%), as unclassified. Of the 19 (5%) unclassified cardiac CTexams, the most common indication was for evaluation of suspected aortic dissection. Three hundred five exams (80%) were referred by cardiologists; 73 (19%), by internists; and 5 (1%), by neurologists. Of the 305 cardiology-referred studies, 221 (73%) were ordered by general cardiologists; 28 (9%), by interventional cardiologists; and 56 (19%), by electrophysiologists. There was no significant difference in adherence to the criteria between provider specialties or between cardiology subspecialties (P > 0.05). Conclusions: Adherence to the 2010 AC at our center was uniformly high across provider specialties.
AB - Background: In November 2010, the American College of Cardiology Foundation published revised appropriateness criteria (AC) for cardiac computed tomography (CT). We evaluated adherence to these criteria by providers of different subspecialties at a tertiary referral center. Methods: Reports of 383 consecutive patients who underwent clinically indicated cardiac CT from December 1, 2010, to July 31, 2011, were reviewed by physicians with appropriate training in cardiac CT. Scans were classified as appropriate, inappropriate, or uncertain based on the revised 2010 AC. Studies that did not fall under any of the specified indications were labeled as unclassified. Adherence to the AC was also analyzed as a function of provider type. Research scans were excluded from this analysis. Results: Three hundred eight exams (80%)were classified as appropriate; 26 (7%), as inappropriate; 30 (8%), as uncertain; and 19 (5%), as unclassified. Of the 19 (5%) unclassified cardiac CTexams, the most common indication was for evaluation of suspected aortic dissection. Three hundred five exams (80%) were referred by cardiologists; 73 (19%), by internists; and 5 (1%), by neurologists. Of the 305 cardiology-referred studies, 221 (73%) were ordered by general cardiologists; 28 (9%), by interventional cardiologists; and 56 (19%), by electrophysiologists. There was no significant difference in adherence to the criteria between provider specialties or between cardiology subspecialties (P > 0.05). Conclusions: Adherence to the 2010 AC at our center was uniformly high across provider specialties.
KW - Appropriate use criteria
KW - Cardiac computed tomography
KW - Quality improvement
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U2 - 10.1097/PTS.0000000000000124
DO - 10.1097/PTS.0000000000000124
M3 - Article
C2 - 25136850
AN - SCOPUS:84959149488
SN - 1549-8417
VL - 12
SP - 40
EP - 43
JO - Journal of Patient Safety
JF - Journal of Patient Safety
IS - 1
ER -