NASPE expert consensus statement: Physician workforce in cardiac electrophysiology and pacing

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1646-1655

  Reynolds, Dwight W ^a   Naccarelli, Gerald V ^b   Wilber, David J ^c   MacGowan, Julie ^d   Morgan, Alan ^e   Nickelson, Daniel E ^e   Parsonnet, Victor ^e   Walsh, Edward P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d NASPE   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CATHETER ABLATION; CONSULTATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MANPOWER; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIOLOGY; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEALTH MANPOWER; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0031830549     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb00254.x     Document Type: Review

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