External Validation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 742-743

  Quinn, James ^a   McDermott, Daniel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAN FRANCISCO SYNCOPE RULE; ST SEGMENT; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNCOPE; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 36148993591     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.06.476     Document Type: Letter

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