Appropriate use and clinical impact of transthoracic echocardiography

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 1600-1607

  Matulevicius, Susan A ^a   Rohatgi, Anand ^a   Das, Sandeep R ^a   Price, Angela L ^a   DeLuna, Andres ^a   Reimold, Sharon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 84884680208     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.8972     Document Type: Article

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