Interrater reliability of hemodynamic profiling of patients with heart failure in the ED

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 196-201

  Chaudhry, Ahmed ^a   Singer, Adam J ^a   Chohan, Jasmine ^a   Russo, Valerie ^a   Lee, Christopher ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFUSION; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE PRESSURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUBURBAN POPULATION;

EID: 38949130732     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2007.04.029     Document Type: Article

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