id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_zsad2k62vnafpcf6ur5twfogaa Rishi K. Wadhera Temporal Trends in Unstable Angina Diagnosis Codes for Outpatient Percutaneous Coronary Interventions 2019 5 .pdf application/pdf 4950 600 44 Temporal Trends in Unstable Angina Diagnosis Codes for Outpatient Percutaneous Coronary Interventions Some have declared this a policy success—that the fewer inappropriate PCIs performed nationally reflect better selection of patients likely to experience improved outcomes. To explore this possibility, we examined trends in PCIs coded for acute indications in the outpatient setting in 3 large and geographically dispersed states. The proportion of outpatient PCIs coded for acute indications increased inpatient setting, PCIs coded for acute indications increased New York, the proportion of PCIs labeled as acute, but performed as outpatient procedures, increased 14-fold, driven data raise the possibility that physicians increasingly classified patients with stable chest pain as UA in the outpatient setting, or that hospitals shifted coding patterns, potentially owing to external factors including reporting of appropriateness Number of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCIs) Performed for Unstable Angina or Acute Myocardial Infarction ./cache/work_zsad2k62vnafpcf6ur5twfogaa.pdf ./txt/work_zsad2k62vnafpcf6ur5twfogaa.txt