Diagnostic accuracy and cost-effectiveness of a pocket-sized transthoracic echocardiographic imaging device

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 603-610

  Kitada, Ryoko ^a   Fukuda, Shota ^b   Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^c   Oe, Hiroki ^d   Abe, Yukio ^e   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^a   Song, Jong Min ^f   Sitges, Marta ^g   Shiota, Takahiro ^h   Ito, Hiroshi ^d   Yoshikawa, Junichi ⁱ  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Osaka Ekisaikai Hospital   (Japan)

^c TOKYO BAY URAYASU ICHIKAWA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f Asan Medical Center   (South Korea)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^h CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ Nishinomiya Watanabe Cardiovascular Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POCKET SIZED TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MIDDLE AGED; MINIATURIZATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84885471748     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.22171     Document Type: Article

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