Cardiac troponin testing is overused after the rule-in or rule-out of myocardial infarction

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 436-438

  Fraga, Olaia Rodriguez ^a   Sandoval, Yader ^a   Love, Sara A ^a   McKinney, Zeke J ^a,b   Murakami, Maryann M ^a   Smith, Stephen W ^a,b   Apple, Fred S ^a,b  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CARDIOLOGIST; CORONARY RISK; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RESIDENT; TELEMETRY; THORAX PAIN; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECONOMICS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TROPONIN T;

EID: 84921874822     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2014.232694     Document Type: Letter

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