A review and critique of the statistical methods used to generate reference values in pediatric echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-37

  Mawad, Wadi ^a   Drolet, Christian ^a   Dahdah, Nagib ^b   Dallaire, Frederic ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Normalization; Pediatric; Reference values; Z scores

Indexed keywords

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD GROWTH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BIOMETRY; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84871386832     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2012.09.021     Document Type: Review

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