£2m study to check if chest scans can cut heart attack risk.
A trial funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme will examine whether giving cardiac CT scans to patients when they arrive at hospital with chest pain is a cost effective way to improve treatment, save lives and cut unnecessary hospital admissions.In the UK, around 700,000 patients attend hospital emergency departments each year with...
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