Observer reproducibility and validity of systems for clinical classification of angina pectoris: Comparison with radionuclide imaging and coronary angiography

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 26-31

  Christensen, Henrik Wulff ^a,b   Haghfelt, Torben ^b   Vach, Werner ^c   Johansen, Allan ^b   Høilund Carlsen, Poul Flemming ^b  

^a NORDIC INSTITUTE OF CHIROPRACTIC AND CLINICAL BIOMECHANICS   (Denmark)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Angiography; Chest pain; Classification systems; Observer agreement; Scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33644929554     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2005.00643.x     Document Type: Article

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