Invasive management and late clinical outcomes in contemporary Australian management of acute coronary syndromes: observations from the ACACIA registry

• 1 School of Rural Health, Monash University, Bendigo, VIC.
• 2 ANZAC Research Institute, Sydney, NSW.
• 3 School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA.

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