Focused cardiac ultrasound screening for rheumatic heart disease by briefly trained health workers: a study of diagnostic accuracy
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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 enable screening at a population-level. We aimed to evaluate the quality and agreement of FoCUS for ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Global Health
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2214-109X
DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(16)30065-1