Assessment of chest pain onset and out-of-hospital delay using standardized interview questions: The REACT pilot study

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 773-780

  Hedges, Jerris R ^a   Mann, N Clay ^a   Meischke, Hendrika ^b   Robbins, Mark ^d   Goldberg, Robert ^c   Zapka, Jane ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b King County   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute disease; Chest pain; Epidemiology; Health education; Myocardial infarction; Transportation of patients

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 0031845446     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1998.tb02503.x     Document Type: Article

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