Ischemic Risk Prediction Scores: Practice-Changing or Just Practice?

J Am Coll Cardiol

Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Published: November 2022

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