Assay precision and risk of misclassification at rule-out cut-offs for high-sensitivity cardiac troponin

Affiliations

• ¹ McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: kavsakp@mcmaster.ca.
• ² BHF/University Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ³ McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁴ University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁵ McGill University, Montréal, Quebec Canada.
• ⁶ Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• ⁷ University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁸ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ⁹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, NB, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• ¹¹ University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• ¹² University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• ¹³ Department of Medical Biochemistry and Pharmacology & Department of Heart Disease, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
• ¹⁴ Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
• ¹⁵ Department of Cardiology and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.