Seven plus one reasons for surveys of acute myocardial infarction in Greece

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 194-197

  Pipilis, Athanasios G ^a,b   Paschidi, Marina D ^a   Andrikopoulos, George K ^a   Goudevenos, John A ^a  

^a Hellenic Cardiological Society   (Greece)

^b HYGEIA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Multicentre studies; Myocardial infarction; Surveys

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GREECE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

DATA COLLECTION; GREECE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 35448963532     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: 10117970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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