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Guidance on the use of coronary artery stents

  • Technology appraisal guidance
  • Reference number: TA71
  • Published:  22 October 2003
  • Last updated:  18 November 2020
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  • Overview
  • 1 Recommendations
  • 2 Clinical need and practice
  • 3 The technology
  • 4 Evidence and interpretation
  • 5 Recommendations for further research
  • 6 Implications for the NHS
  • 7 Implementation and audit
  • 8 Appraisal Committee members and NICE project team
  • 9 Sources of evidence considered by the Committee
  • Appendix C Detail on criteria for audit of the use of coronary artery stents
  • Update information

Update information

November 2020: Recommendation 1.1 was updated when NICE's guideline on acute coronary syndromes was published.

July 2008: Recommendations 1.2 to 1.4 of this guidance have been replaced by NICE's technology appraisal guidance on coronary artery disease – drug-eluting stents.

ISBN: 978-1-4731-3929-9


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