Evaluation of B-type Natriuretic Peptide for validation of a heart failure register in primary care

BACKGROUND: Diagnosing heart failure and left ventricular systolic dysfunction is difficult on clinical grounds alone. We sought to determine the accuracy of a heart failure register in a single primary care practice, and to examine the usefulness of b-type (or brain) natriuretic peptide (BNP) assay...

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Autores principales: Bhatia, Gurbir S, Sosin, Michael D, Stubley, Jane, Patel, Jeetesh V, Hughes, Elizabeth A, Gibbs, Rebecca, Davis, Russell C
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1948020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17663777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-7-23

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