Prospective Validation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule: Will It Change Practice?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 455-456

  Miller, Chadwick D ^a   Hoekstra, James W ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYNCOPE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNCOPE;

EID: 33646051553     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.11.040     Document Type: Editorial

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