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SMARTT use of cardiac biomarkers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Jacques S. Lee*
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine Research Program, and Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ont.
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Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Ave., BG-15, Toronto ON M4N 3M5

Abstract

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Type
Commentary • Commentaire
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2002

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