Application of Appropriateness Criteria in Outpatient Transthoracic Echocardiography
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0894-7317
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2008.10.020