Hospice and palliative medicine ultrasound: A new horizon for emergency medicine?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 330-332

  Dean, Anthony J ^a   Melniker, Larry A ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HOSPICE CARE; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NOTE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIALIZATION;

EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FORECASTING; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; SPECIALIZATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77951132550     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00688.x     Document Type: Note

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