Things We Do for No Reason: Hospitalization for the Evaluation of Patients with Low-Risk Chest Pain.

J Hosp Med

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Published: April 2018

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