Echocardiography in Nigeria: Use, problems, reproducibility and potentials

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ogah, Okechukwu S ^a   Adebanjo, Ademola T ^a   Otukoya, Adedeji S ^a   Jagusa, Tarwanger J ^a  

^a FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NIGERIA; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646019293     PISSN: 14767120     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-4-13     Document Type: Article

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