Biochemical Markers of Myocardial Injury Test Turnaround Time: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes Study of 7020 Troponin and 4368 Creatine Kinase-MB Determinations in 159 Institutions

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 158-164

  Novis, David A ^a   Jones, Bruce A ^b   Dale, Jane C ^c   Walsh, Molly K ^d  

^a Wentworth Douglass Hospital   (United States)

^b ST JOHN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d Molecular Pathology Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY WARD; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HUMAN; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LABORATORY TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE, MB FORM; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TIME FACTORS; TROPONIN;

EID: 0742318853     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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