Prevalence, clinical characteristics, resource utilization and outcome of patients with acute chest pain in the emergency department. A multicenter, prospective, observational study in North-Eastern Italy

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 318-324

  Solinas, Lucia ^a,c   Raucci, Rosa ^a   Terrazzino, Sergio ^a   Moscariello, Francesco ^a   Pertoldi, Franco ^a   Vajto, Sergio ^a   Badano, Luigi P ^b  

^a Civic Hospital   (Italy)

^b SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Ospedale Civile   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Costs; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE MARKER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0242362805     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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