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BIC8 Health Economic Analysis
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Description: Smptoms indicating acute coronary syndrome are common in emergency rooms, but only 10% of patients are actually diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The guidelines for the diagnosis of patients with suspected AMI include either multiple testing of cardiac troponin (cTN) or, alternatively, a single combined test of cTN and copeptin, which facilitates earlier diagnosis or exclusion of AMI. The aim of the present analysis was to investigate the impact of the combined copeptin/cTN-testing on health care resource consumption and related costs during the initial hospital treatment as well as after.