Patient risk or physician practice: What factors drive resource use in unstable angina?

American Heart Journal

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 365-367

  Eisenstein, E L ^a  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0031690379     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(98)70206-6     Document Type: Editorial

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