Sorting through the haystack - Decision analysis and the search for heart disease among children with murmur

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 465-467

  Danford, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUSCULTATION; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MONEY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

EID: 0036800091     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mpd.2002.128657     Document Type: Article

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