Usefulness of the TIMI risk score in predicting both short- and long-term outcomes in the Veterans Affairs Non-Q-Wave Myocardial Infarction Strategies In-Hospital (VANQWISH) Trial

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 922-926

  Samaha, Frederick F ^a,b   Kimmel, Stephen E ^a   Kizer, Jorge R ^c   Goyal, Abhinav ^a   Wade, Michael ^d   Boden, William E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d SYRACUSE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; RATING SCALE; REVASCULARIZATION; THROMBOLYSIS IN MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION RISK SCORE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE, MB FORM; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036829419     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(02)02654-1     Document Type: Article

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