Evaluation of a screening protocol using auscultation and portable echocardiography to detect asymptomatic rheumatic heart disease in Tongan schoolchildren

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 411-417

  Carapetis, Jonathan R ^a,b,c,d   Hardy, Myra ^b   Fakakovikaetau, Toakase ^e   Taib, Rohayati ^f   Wilkinson, Lyn ^f   Penny, Daniel J ^c,f   Steer, Andrew C ^b  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d WORLD HEART FEDERATION   (Switzerland)

^e Ministry of Health Tonga   (Tonga)

^f ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PEDIATRICIAN; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAFF TRAINING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TONGA; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART MURMURS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STETHOSCOPES; TONGA;

EID: 46649090722     PISSN: 17434297     EISSN: 17434300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpcardio1185     Document Type: Article

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