Emergency physician ultrasonography for evaluating patients at risk for ectopic pregnancy: A meta-analysis

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 674-683

  Stein, John C ^a   Wang, Ralph ^a   Adler, Naomi ^b   Boscardin, John ^a   Jacoby, Vanessa L ^a   Won, Gloria ^b   Goldstein, Ruth ^a   Kohn, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBASE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78649509324     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.06.563     Document Type: Article

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