Discordance of cardiac troponin I assays on the point-of-care i-STAT and Architect assays from Abbott Diagnostics

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 403, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 259-260

  Singh, Jasbir ^a   Akbar, Muhammad S ^b   Adabag, Selcuk ^a,b  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I;

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; MYALGIA; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; THORAX PAIN;

DRUG INDUSTRY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TROPONIN I;

EID: 64849104140     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2009.01.017     Document Type: Letter

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