Predicting severe angiographic coronary artery disease using computerization of clinical and exercise test data

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Volumn 114, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1437-1445

  Do, Dat ^b   Marcus, Rachel ^a   Froelicher, Victor ^a,e   Janosi, Andras ^d   West, Jeff ^a   Atwood, J Edwin ^a   Myers, Jonathan ^a   Chilton, Robert ^b   Froning, Jeff ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c Sunnyside Biomedical

^d St Janos's Municipal Hospital   (Hungary)

^e VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography, computerization; Coronary artery disease, exercise testing, prediction equations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION;

EID: 0031762059     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.114.5.1437     Document Type: Article

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