Differences between local investigator and core laboratory interpretation of the admission electrocardiogram in patients with unstable angina pectoris or non-Q-wave myocardial infarction (a thrombin inhibition in myocardial ischemia [TRIM] substudy)

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 54-60

  Holmvang, Lene ^a   Hasbak, Philip ^b   Clemmensen, Peter ^b   Wagner, Galen ^b   Grande, Peer ^b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; T WAVE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CREATINE KINASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT ADMISSION;

EID: 0032126372     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00226-4     Document Type: Article

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