Survey of clinical echocardiography in New Zealand (SCANZ)

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 1269, 2008, Pages 34-44

  Bridgman, Paul G ^a   Ashrafi, Akbar N ^b   Mann, Stewart ^c   Whalley, Gillian A ^b  

^a CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MURMUR; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REVIEW; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; ARTICLE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 40949106954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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