Initial diagnostic errors in children suspected of having heart disease: prevalence and long-term consequences
OBJECTIVE: To access the incidence of diagnostic errors in the initial evaluation of children with cardiac murmurs. METHODS: We evaluated our 7-years of experience in a public pediatric cardiology outpatient clinic. Of 3692 patients who were sent to the hospital, 2603 presented with a heart murmur a...
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Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC)
2003-08-01
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Series: | Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X2003001000004 |