"Their use should be encouraged in the preoperative assessment of patients undergoing surgical management," experts said recently in the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology.
Researchers tracked data from 7,159 patients in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, sharing their findings in The American Journal of Cardiology.
ACR is joined by similar groups representing anesthesiologists and emergency physicians, hoping to fix a new process aimed at settling disputes between providers and payers.