Dr. Qayyum Authors Annals Article
GIM faculty member and Hospitalist Program member Rehan Qayyum, MD, is the principal investigator of a study published in the February 5, 2008 issue of the American College of Physicians’ journal, Annals of Internal Medicine. The article is entitled “Systematic Review: Comparing Routine and Selective Invasive Strategies for the Acute Coronary Syndrome.” The investigators led by Dr. Qayyum reviewed “10 randomized trials involving 10 648 patients with non–ST-segment elevation ACS [and] found that 15.9% of participants assigned to a routine invasive strategy died or had nonfatal myocardial infarction, compared with 17.5% of those assigned to a selective invasive strategy.”
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