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Reducing Unnecessary Noninvasive Testing for Inpatients With Unstable Angina: The RUNIT Protocol

BACKGROUND: Routine inpatient transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) for patients with unstable angina is common, but it anecdotally adds little value to clinical care. A practice audit at our academic hospital demonstrated that 61.5% of patients with troponin-negative chest pain (TNCP) had normal lef...

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Autores principales: Leis, Benjamin, Bare, Idris, Marshall, Kirsten, Buschau, Elise, Penner, Lori, Keith, Cassandra, De Villiers, J.S., Orvold, Jason
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8129432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34027356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cjco.2020.12.004