Biomarker-guided clinical decisions: for patients, health economists or neither?
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Biomarker-guided clinical decisions: for patients, health economists or neither?
In this issue of the European Respiratory Journal, ALBRICH et al. [1] report on a randomised trial. Their hypothesis is that triage decisions in patients with respiratory infections, guided by adding measurements of the calcitonin-superfamily gene derived peptide, mid-regional proadrenomedullin, are more effective than if guided according to clinical assessment alone. Length of hospital stay is...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00024813