Operationalizing cardiac troponin I testing along ESC/ACC consensus guidelines for defining myocardial infarction: Increasing rate of detection [1]

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 331, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 165-166

  Apple, Fred S ^a,b   Johari, Vandita ^a   Hoybook, Karen J ^a   Weber Shrikant, Edit ^a   Davis, Gerswhin K ^a   Murakami, MaryAnn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; TROPONIN I;

CORONARY CARE UNIT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; PATIENT CODING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELEMETRY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0037402932     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(03)00120-7     Document Type: Letter

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