The rate at which residents learn to use hand-held echocardiography at the bedside

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1010-1018

  Hellmann, David B ^a,b   Whiting O'Keefe, Quinn ^a   Shapiro, Edward P ^a   Martin, L David ^a   Martire, Carol ^a   Ziegelstein, Roy C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hand carried ultrasound device; Residents; Training

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MITRAL VALVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 24744447956     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2005.05.030     Document Type: Article

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