Less is more, but do not throw out the baby with the bathwater either!

Diagnosis

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 199-201

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^b   Cervellin, Gianfranco ^b   Plebani, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b ACADEMIC HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TROPONIN;

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LABORATORY TEST; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 84928383325     PISSN: 21948011     EISSN: 2194802X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/dx-2014-0041     Document Type: Editorial

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