When Less Is More: Costly Interventions For ACS Patients Critiqued In JAMA
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Acute myocardial infarction care in the U.S. could benefit from less of a focus on invasive cardiac interventions and more reliance on established, inexpensive medical management strategies, researchers suggest in the March 16 issue of JAMA
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