Technician run open access exercise electrocardiography

Heart

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 378-382

  Agrawal, S ^a   Danbauchi, S S ^a   Goodfellow, J ^b   Robson, S A ^b   Reid, D S ^a  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Audit; Cardiac technician; Exercise stress testing; Open access services

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032857770     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.82.3.378     Document Type: Article

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