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Clinical utility of novel cardiac markers: Let the buyer beware

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Grant Innes
Grant Innes*
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC; Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
*
Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Paul’s Hospital, 1081 Burrard St., Vancouver BC V6Z 1Y6

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Commentary • Commentaire
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 32 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2006

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