Development and validation of a simple model to predict severe coronary artery disease after myocardial infarction: Potential impact on cardiac catheterization use in the United States and Canada

American Heart Journal

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 349-355

  Batchelor, Wayne B ^a,d   Mark, Daniel B ^b   David Knight, J ^b   Granger, Christopher B ^b   Armstrong, Paul W ^c   Califf, Robert M ^b   Peterson, Eric D ^b  

^a Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d Interventional Cardiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0037323533     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhj.2003.111     Document Type: Article

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