Cardiac injury markers and a failed algorithm: Can accurate assessment of acute myocardial infarction be cost effective?

Military Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 683-687

  Abadie, Jude M ^a  

^a MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASSAY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE MARKER; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY;

EID: 0036342232     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/167.8.683     Document Type: Article

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