Cardiac screening: Time to move forward!

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  Borjesson, Mats ^a   Drezner, Jonathan ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FORECASTING; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MANDATORY TESTING; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SPORTS MEDICINE;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FORECASTING; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MANDATORY TESTING; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SPORTS MEDICINE;

EID: 84869043044     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: 14730480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2012-091621     Document Type: Editorial

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