Can structured clinical assessment using modified Duke's criteria improve appropriate use of echocardiography in patients with suspected infective endocarditis?

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1017-1022

  Jassal, Davinder S ^a   Lee, Candace ^b   Silversides, Candice ^c   Tam, James W ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Endocarditis; Health care delivery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETER; HEART MURMUR; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL CARE; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDIZATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MANITOBA; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0041883359     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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