Overreliance on symptom quality in diagnosing dizziness: Results of a multicenter survey of emergency physicians

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1319-1328

  Stanton, Victoria A ^a   Hsieh, Yu Hsiang ^b   Camargo Jr , Carlos A ^c   Edlow, Jonathan A ^d   Lovett, Paris ^e   Goldstein, Joshua N ^c   Abbuhl, Stephanie ^f   Lin, Michelle ^g   Chanmugam, Arjun ^b   Rothman, Richard E ^b   Newman Toker, David E ^b,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DIZZINESS; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESYNCOPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STROKE; VERTIGO;

EID: 35848944121     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/82.11.1319     Document Type: Article

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