Defining unrecognized myocardial infarction: A call for standardized electrocardiographic diagnostic criteria

American Heart Journal

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 277-284

  Ammar, Khawaja Afzal ^a   Kors, Jan A ^b   Yawn, Barbara P ^a   Rodeheffer, Richard J ^c  

^a OLMSTED MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; Q WAVE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ST SEGMENT; T WAVE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 4143107978     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2004.03.019     Document Type: Article

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