Economic evaluation of the one-hour rule-out and rule-in algorithm for acute myocardial infarction using the high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T assay in the emergency department.

The 1-hour (h) algorithm triages patients presenting with suspected acute myocardial infarction (AMI) to the emergency department (ED) towards "rule-out," "rule-in," or "observation," depending on baseline and 1-h levels of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn). Th...

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Main Authors: Apoorva Ambavane, Bertil Lindahl, Evangelos Giannitsis, Julie Roiz, Joan Mendivil, Lutz Frankenstein, Richard Body, Michael Christ, Roland Bingisser, Aitor Alquezar, Christian Mueller, TRAPID-AMI investigators
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5679593?pdf=render