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Signal Acquisition, Score Interpretation, and Economics of a Non-Invasive Point-of-Care Test for Coronary Artery Disease
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Correction: Model-based cost-impact analysis of a diagnostic test for patients with community-acquired pneumonia in
Brittany Humphries1, Yuan Sun1, Jeffrey Pernica1,2
1Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
BMC Infectious Diseases
|April 14, 2025
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