Radiology Residents' On-Call Interpretation of Chest Radiographs for Congestive Heart Failure

Academic Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1264-1270

  Feldmann, Eric J ^a   Jain, Vineet R ^a   Rakoff, Saul ^a   Haramati, Linda B ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest radiography; congestive heart failure; emergency department

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RESIDENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOLOGY;

EID: 34548668694     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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