Neonatal murmurs: Are senior house officers good enough?

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Farrer, K F M ^a   Rennie, J M ^b  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MURMUR; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; SKILL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037374089     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 13592998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.88.2.f147     Document Type: Article

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