Long-term experience with an accelerated protocol for diagnosis of chest pain

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1434-1439

  Caragher, T E ^a   Fernandez, B B ^a   Barr, L A ^a  

^a Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; MYOGLOBIN; TROPONIN I;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXPERIENCE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; THORAX PAIN;

AGED; CHEST PAIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE, MB FORM; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRIAGE;

EID: 0033794005     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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