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The Interrater Reliability of Inferior Vena Cava Ultrasound by Bedside Clinician Sonographers in Emergency Department Patients

  1. J. Matthew Fields MD,
  2. Paul A. Lee MD,
  3. Katherine Y. Jenq MD,
  4. Dustin G. Mark MD,
  5. Nova L. Panebianco MD, MPH,
  6. Anthony J. Dean MD

Article first published online: 10 JAN 2011

DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00952.x

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Academic Emergency Medicine

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volume 18, Issue 1, pages 98–101, January 2011

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Fields, J. M., Lee, P. A., Jenq, K. Y., Mark, D. G., Panebianco, N. L. and Dean, A. J. (2011), The Interrater Reliability of Inferior Vena Cava Ultrasound by Bedside Clinician Sonographers in Emergency Department Patients. Academic Emergency Medicine, 18: 98–101. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00952.x

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  1. From the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

*Address for correspondence and reprints: Anthony J. Dean, MD; e-mail: Anthony.Dean@uphs.upenn.edu.

  1. The authors have no disclosures or conflicts of interest to report.

  2. Supervising Editor: Alan Jones, MD.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 10 JAN 2011
  2. Article first published online: 10 JAN 2011
  3. Received March 16, 2010; revision received May 5, 2010; accepted May 6, 2010.

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