The Nation - News from May 2, 1985
Hospitals in the United States could save $600 million a year by using standard heart-monitoring techniques to predict the outcome of heart attacks, doctors at Yale University said in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. A study of 469 patients who were admitted to hospital emergency rooms with chest pains found that electrocardiograms could be used to predict whether a patient could be safely sent to an intermediate care unit rather than a more expensive coronary care unit.
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