A Critical Examination of Independent Medical Review Decision-making for Cardiovascular Procedures Shows Low Rate of Evidence Citation in Reviews

*School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

†Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco

‡Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

§Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

∥Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Funded by the Arnold Ventures Foundation.

S.S.D. and R.F.R. report serving on the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) California Technology Assessment Forum. S.S.D. receives research support from the National Evaluation System for Health Technology Coordinating Center (NESTcc). J.N. receives research support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.

Correspondence to: Rita F. Redberg, MD, MSc, 505 Parnassus Avenue, M1180B, San Francisco, CA 94117. E-mail: [email protected].

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