Some hospitals better than others in selecting patients to undergo cardiac catheterization, study finds
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 - 08:30
in Health & Medicine
Hospitals vary markedly when it comes to the rate at which diagnostic coronary angiography or catheterization -- an invasive procedure that allows doctors to see the vessels and arteries leading to the heart -- actually finds obstructive coronary artery disease in people without known heart disease.