Comparison of Point-of-Care Versus Laboratory Troponin Testing in an Emergency Department Setting
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Diagnostic performance of point-of-care and central laboratory cardiac troponin assays in an emergency department
Early diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI) with cardiac troponin (cTn) assays at the point-of-care (POC) is suggested to shorten turn-around-time in the emergency department (ED). The present study aimed at comparing the diagnostic performance of two POC cTn assays with that of a central laboratory high-sensitivity (hs) method, under routine ED conditions. In 2,163 non-selected ED patients s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Military Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0026-4075,1930-613X
DOI: 10.7205/milmed-d-16-00387