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Avoiding Clinical Errors With Bedside Echocardiography: A Randomized Clinical Study

Abstract

Clinicians have strong opinions about whether they should be provided the clinical history before or after bedside testing. We hypothesized that diagnostic accuracy is improved when a concordant clinical history is provided before a diagnostic test. To investigate whether the timing (before or after) and the consistency (concordant vs discordant) of the clinical history in the setting of focused bedside echocardiography affects clinician …

Authors

Moayedi Y; Posada JGD; Nesbitt GC; Ross HJ; Bell C; Dorian P; Sibbald M

Journal

Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 88–91

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

January 2018

DOI

10.1016/j.cjca.2017.10.018

ISSN

0828-282X