Referral bias: A difficult but important topic

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 107-109

  Gibbons, Raymond J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DATA ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; RESEARCH; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICS;

CLINICAL TRIALS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RESEARCH; SELECTION BIAS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 2542504690     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2004.01.001     Document Type: Editorial

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