Guidelines for the provision of echocardiography in Canada: Recommendations of a joint Canadian Cardivascular Society/Canadian Society of Echocardiography Consensus Panel

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 763-780

  Sanfilippo, Anthony ^a,b   Bewick, David ^a   Chan, Kwan Leung ^a   Cujec, Bibiana ^a   Dumesnil, Jean G ^a   Honos, George ^a   Munt, Bradley ^a   Sasson, Zion ^a   Tam, James ^a   Tomlinson, Charles ^a   Aboguddah, Ayman ^a   Ahmed, Shaheeda ^a   Ali, Mohamed ^a   Arsenault, Marie ^a   Ascah, Kathryn ^a   Ashton, Tom ^a   Baird, Michael ^a   Basmadjian, Arsene ^a   Beique, Francois ^a   Blakeley, Michael ^a   Blais, Marie Josee ^a   Burggraf, Gary ^a   Burwash, Ian ^a   Cochrane, Jessica ^a   Fagan, Susan ^a   Giannoccaro, Peter ^a   Hughes, William ^a   Jones, Alan ^a   Jue, John ^a   Koilpillai, Chris ^a   LeBlanc, Marie Helene ^a   Londry, Colleen ^a   Morgan, Dennis ^a   O'Reilly, Michael ^a   Sawchuk, Corey ^a   Siu, Samuel ^a   Sochowski, Randy ^a   Tremblay, Guy ^a   Welikovitch, Lisa ^a   Yu, Eric ^a   more..

^a Kingston General Hospital ^*

^b KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Indications; Standards of practice; Training standards

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPETENCE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RELIABILITY; RESPONSIBILITY; SAFETY; TRAINING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 23844506239     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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