Screening for rheumatic heart disease: quality and agreement of focused cardiac ultrasound by briefly trained health workers

BACKGROUND: Echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease (RHD) has the potential to detect subclinical cases for secondary prevention, but is constrained by inadequate human resources in most settings. Training non-expert health workers to perform focused cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS) may en...

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Autores principales: Engelman, Daniel, Kado, Joseph H., Reményi, Bo, Colquhoun, Samantha M., Carapetis, Jonathan R., Wilson, Nigel J., Donath, Susan, Steer, Andrew C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4736281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26830341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-016-0205-7

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