The Chest Pain Center Strategy for Delivering Community Heart Attack Care by Shifting the Paradigm of Heart Attack Care to Earlier Detection and Treatment
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عنوان ژورنال: Preventive Cardiology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1520-037X,1751-7141
DOI: 10.1111/j.1520-037x.2002.00549.x