The novel findings reported by Conway R and colleagues in the current issue of European Journal of Internal Medicine, entitled “Is there excessive troponin testing in clinical practice? Evidence from
emergency medical admissions” [
[1]
], introduced to us an opportunity to review the importance of troponin testing in
emergency medical care. Several studies have indicated the potential adverse outcomes
such as unnecessarily prolonged hospitalization and invasive procedures caused by
inappropriate troponin testing [
2
,
3
,
4
]. Based upon these studies, the frequency of troponin tests seems to be in need of
being reduced. However, the results of the present study were inconsistent with the
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Publication history
Published online: May 28, 2021
Accepted:
May 1,
2021
Received:
April 27,
2021
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