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Intravascular Diagnostic Procedures and Imaging Techniques Versus Angiography Alone in Coronary Stenting: Future Research Needs

Systematic Review ARCHIVED Feb 26, 2013
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This report is from AHRQ's series on Future Research Needs Projects.

Structured Abstract

Background

The optimal use of intravascular diagnostic techniques in patients with coronary artery diseases who are being considered for stenting remains to be defined.

Purpose

Generate prioritized topics for future research on the use of intravascular diagnostic techniques, building on evidence gaps identified in a prior comparative effectiveness review (CER) and following an explicit stakeholder-driven nomination and prioritization process.

Methods

Building on evidence gaps identified in a previous CER on intravascular diagnostic techniques, a preliminary list of future research needs (FRN) was supplemented and refined through input from stakeholders. Stakeholders were asked to rate each proposed priority topic considering the following dimensions in prioritization: (1) importance, (2) desirability of research/avoidance of unnecessary duplication, (3) feasibility, and (4) potential impact. The three topics with the highest number of stakeholder endorsements were identified as the prioritized FRN topics.

Future research needs topics

Two topics (one on the use of intravascular physiologic measurements like fractional flow reserve in treatment decisionmaking before stenting and one on the impact of the use of intravascular imaging diagnostics on stenting) are based directly on evidence gaps identified in the CER. One topic on the added value of intravascular diagnostic techniques in patients for whom there is already a clear clinical and other noninvasive diagnostic indication suggesting the need for revascularization was raised by the stakeholders.

Conclusions

This report identifies three high priority future research needs with regards to intravascular diagnostic techniques, as determined by a stakeholder panel. Both data from pragmatic randomized controlled trials and properly adjusted observational studies could be used to fill the gaps and help address the important clinical questions.

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Intravascular Diagnostic Procedures and Imaging Techniques Versus Angiography Alone in Coronary Stenting: Future Research Needs

Feb 26, 2013
Feb 26, 2013
Systematic Review Archived
Page last reviewed December 2019
Page originally created November 2017

Internet Citation: Systematic Review: Intravascular Diagnostic Procedures and Imaging Techniques Versus Angiography Alone in Coronary Stenting: Future Research Needs. Content last reviewed December 2019. Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/coronary-artery-stenting-future/research

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