Availability of urgent ultrasonography to emergency departments in New Zealand

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1172, 2003, Pages

  Woo, Michael Y ^a,b  

^a TAURANGA HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEW ZEALAND; QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR; MEDICAL STAFF; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; STATISTICS; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NEW ZEALAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037946746     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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