TY  - JOUR
T1  - HEart disease screening in elementary school children
AU  - Morton W, Arnold RC
Y1  - 1959/03/14
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1959.03000280015005
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1163
EP  - 1168
VL  - 169
IS  - 11
N2  - A screening program for the purpose of estimating the prevalence rates for congenital and rheumatic heart disease was carried out among 6,311 children between the ages of 6 and 11 years. Among 165 children thus identified as requiring further study, a secondary program of examinations was carried out. The abnormalities discovered included 33 cases of congenital and 7 of rheumatic heart disease. The study revealed 29 cases of previously unrecognized cardiac abnormality but also relieved at least 15 children of a false diagnosis of heart disease. It was valuable not only in assuring some children of needed treatment but also in determining the diagnostic value of various physical findings.
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1959.03000280015005
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03000280015005
ER  -