While other organizations have developed appropriate use criteria for other modalities, such as cardiac testing, few have specifically addressed vascular testing.
"I hope that these criteria will allow clinicians and vascular laboratories to really focus on doing the highest quality work, and to evaluate their use of vascular testing, maximize the use of the vascular lab, and assure that the right test is done for the right indication and that tests that are not needed are not performed just because they are readily available," she said.
Dr. Gornik disclosed financial or other relationships with Zin Medical, Summit Doppler Systems Inc., the Fibromuscular Dysplasia Society of America, and the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission. A detailed list of disclosures for all Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force Members is included with the full text of the report.