A Visual Approach for the Accurate Determination of Echocardiographic Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction by Medical Students

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 824-831

  Hope, Michael D ^a   De la Pena, Erasmo ^a   Yang, Phillip C ^a   Liang, David H ^a   McConnell, Michael V ^a   Rosenthal, David N ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL STUDENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICIAN; TRAINING;

EID: 0242720356     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/S0894-7317(03)00400-0     Document Type: Article

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