Cardiac or pulmonary dyspnea in patients admitted to the emergency department

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1277-1281

  Malas, O ^a   Caglayan B ^a   Fidan, A ^a   Ocal Z ^a   Ozdogan S ^a,b   Torun, E ^a  

^a Kartal Research and Education Hospital   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cardiac; DDI; Dyspnea; PEF; Pulmonary

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN TENSION; PATIENT CODING; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0348161607     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2003.07.002     Document Type: Article

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