Adding clinical risk factors and a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score to the conventional diagnostic algorithm for chest pain improves the prediction and discrimination of patients with suspected ...
Among patients with suspected obstructive CAD, two simple models that include clinical risk factors both outperform the commonly used pretest probability (PTP) model when it comes to predicting the ...
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