Institutional and individual learning curves for focused abdominal ultrasound for trauma: Cumulative sum analysis

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 231, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 689-700

  McCarter, Freda D ^a   Luchette, Fred A ^a,b   Molloy, Mark ^a   Hurst, James M ^a   Davis Jr , Kenneth ^a   Johannigman, Jay A ^a   Frame, Scott B ^a   Fischer, Josef E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Dept of Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAUMA CENTERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0034114793     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200005000-00009     Document Type: Article

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