Do preparticipation clinical exams reduce morbidity and mortality for athletes?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

  Hulkower, Stephen ^a   Pagan, Blake ^a   Watts, Jana ^a   Ketterman, Elizabeth ^b  

^a MAHEC Family Practice Residency Program   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHLETE; BRONCHOSPASM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE INDUCED BRONCHOSPASM; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREEMPLOYMENT MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PREPARTICIPATION CLINICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; SCREENING; SPORT INJURY; SUDDEN DEATH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; EXERCISE INDUCED ASTHMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPORT; SPORTS MEDICINE;

ASTHMA, EXERCISE-INDUCED; ATHLETIC INJURIES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPORTS; SPORTS MEDICINE;

EID: 22044453698     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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