Different from what the textbooks say: How GPs diagnose coronary heart disease

Family Practice

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 622-627

  Hani, Maren Abu ^a   Keller, Heidemarie ^a   Vandenesch, Jona ^a   Sönnichsen, Andreas C ^a,b   Griffiths, Frances ^c   Donner Banzhoff, Norbert ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Diagnosis; Family practice; Judgement; Myocardial ischaemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSULTATION; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIOVASCULAR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY;

EID: 37749002677     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmm053     Document Type: Article

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