The interrater reliability of inferior vena cava ultrasound by bedside clinician sonographers in emergency department patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 98-101

  Fields, J Matthew ^a   Lee, Paul A ^a   Jenq, Katherine Y ^a   Mark, Dustin G ^a   Panebianco, Nova L ^a   Dean, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; VEIN DIAMETER;

ADULT; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 78651376372     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00952.x     Document Type: Article

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