Clinical Predictors of 30-day Cardiac Events in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome at a Community Hospital

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1113-1120

  Tadros, George M ^a   McConnell, Timothy R ^a   Wood, G Craig ^a   Costello, John M ^a   Iliadis, Elias A ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN T; CREATINE KINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; ACUTE DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GENETICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CREATINE KINASE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TROPONIN T;

EID: 0642337427     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000053481.49309.58     Document Type: Article

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