Early exercise testing for risk stratification of low-risk patients in chest pain centers

Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 114-120

  Amsterdam, Ezra A ^a   Kirk, J Douglas ^a   Diercks, Deborah B ^a   Turnipseed, Samuel D ^a   Lewis, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGINA PECTORIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE TEST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODIFIED BRUCE TREADMILL PROTOCOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREADMILL EXERCISE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 4644253941     PISSN: 1535282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.hpc.0000139721.71013.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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