The learning curve of resident physicians using emergency ultrasonography for cholelithiasis and cholecystitis

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1247-1252

  Jang, Timothy B ^a   Ruggeri, Wendy ^a   Dyne, Pamela ^a   Kaji, Amy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cholecystitis; cholelithiasis; learning curve; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DILATATION; BILIARY TRACT RADIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY ULTRASONOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; GALLBLADDER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LEARNING CURVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 78349261551     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00909.x     Document Type: Article

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