Costs of an emergency department - Based accelerated diagnostic protocol vs hospitalization in patients with chest pain: A randomized controlled trial

JAMA

Volumn 278, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 1670-1676

  Roberts, Rebecca R ^a,b,c   Zalenski, Robert J ^a,b,d   Mensah, Edward K ^b   Rydman, Robert J ^a,b   Ciavarella, Ginevra ^b   Gussow, Leon ^a   Das, Krishna ^c   Kampe, Linda M ^a,b   Dickover, Brian ^a   McDermott, Michael F ^a,b   Hart, Andrea ^b   Straus, Helen E ^a   Murphy, Daniel G ^a,b,e   Rao, Ravi ^c  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030710223     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.278.20.1670     Document Type: Article

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