Chest pain emergency units

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 321-328

  Lewis, William R ^a   Amsterdam, Ezra A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Division of Emergency Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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ANAMNESIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE TEST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORAX PAIN; TREADMILL; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; CHEST PAIN; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032773008     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001573-199907000-00008     Document Type: Review

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