Has Anyone Been Listening? Post-SPECT MPI Referral Rates to Catheterization

Overview

Journal J Nucl Cardiol

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2016 Jul 1

PMID 27357810

Authors

Elizabeth Hill

Rory Hachamovitch

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