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What is the evidence status of Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC)? Insight from a matching exercise with the guidelines for echocardiography

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posted on 2023-05-18, 12:05 authored by Ricardo Fonseca Diaz, Kazuaki Negishi, Thomas MarwickThomas Marwick
There is interest in adapting the American Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for transthoracic echocardiography to Australian practice. We matched 90 of 98 AUC with the guidelines (53 appropriate, 12 sometimes appropriate, 25 rarely appropriate), but eight lacked any match. Among the matched criteria, 76 (82%) indications were concordant with the guidelines. A stronger evidence base would be desirable to settle these discrepancies before Australian adoption of AUC.

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Publication title

Internal Medicine Journal

Volume

45

Issue

8

Pagination

864-869

ISSN

1444-0903

Department/School

Menzies Institute for Medical Research

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Asia

Place of publication

54 University St, P O Box 378, Carlton, Australia, Victoria, 3053

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Copyright 2015 Royal Australasian College of Physicians

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Clinical health not elsewhere classified

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