Clinical correlates and prognostic significance of early negative exercise tolerance test in patients with acute chest pain seen in the hospital emergency department

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 288-292

  Polanczyk, Carisi A ^b   Johnson, Paula A ^b   Hartley, L Howard ^b   Walls, Ronald M ^b   Shaykevich, Shimon ^b   Lee, Thomas H ^a  

^a Partners Community HealthCare Inc   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THORAX PAIN;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CHEST PAIN; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0032006764     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00897-7     Document Type: Article

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