Routine echocardiography in the management of stroke and transient ischaemic attack: A systematic review and economic evaluation

Health Technology Assessment

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 1-176

  Holmes, Michael ^a   Rathbone, John ^a   Littlewood, Chris ^a   Rawdin, Andrew ^a   Stevenson, Matt ^a   Stevens, John ^a   Archer, Rachel ^a   Evans, Pippa ^a   Wang, Jenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 84896882752     PISSN: 13665278     EISSN: 20464924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3310/hta18160     Document Type: Article

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