Successful use of education and cost-based feedback strategies to reduce physician utilization of low-osmolality contrast agents in the cardiac catheterization laboratory

Am J Cardiol. 1994 Jun 15;73(16):1219-21. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(94)90187-2.

Authors

A A Ziskind¹, J Portelli, S Rodriguez, J L Stafford, W R Herzog, J G Knox, R A Vogel

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore.

PMID: 8203344
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(94)90187-2

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Cardiac Catheterization* / economics
Cardiac Catheterization* / methods
Contrast Media / administration & dosage*
Contrast Media / adverse effects
Contrast Media / economics*
Costs and Cost Analysis
Diatrizoate / administration & dosage
Diatrizoate / economics
Drug Costs
Drug Utilization / economics
Education, Medical, Continuing*
Feedback*
Humans
Ioxaglic Acid / administration & dosage
Ioxaglic Acid / economics
Laboratories* / economics
Osmolar Concentration
Peer Review
Practice Patterns, Physicians'* / economics
Prospective Studies
Radiology, Interventional / economics
Risk Factors
Triiodobenzoic Acids / administration & dosage
Triiodobenzoic Acids / economics

Substances

Contrast Media
Triiodobenzoic Acids
Diatrizoate
ioversol
Ioxaglic Acid