Standardized guidelines for the interpretation of dobufamine echocardiography reduce interinstitutional variance in interpretation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1520-1524

  Hoffmann, Rainer ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Lethen, Harald ^a,b,c,d,e   Marwick, Thomas ^a,b,c,d,e   Rambaldi, Riccardo ^a,b,c,d,e   Fioretti, Paolo ^a,b,c,d,e   Pingitore, Alessandro ^a,b,c,d,e   Picano, Eugenio ^a,b,c,d,e   Buck, Thomas ^a,b,c,d,e   Erbel, Raimund ^a,b,c,d,e   Flachskampf, Frank A ^a,b,c,d,e   Hanrath, Peter ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CORONARY DISEASE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVER VARIATION; ODDS RATIO; OHIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 0032534957     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00697-3     Document Type: Article

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