Derivation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule to Predict Patients with Short-Term Serious Outcomes

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 224-232

  Quinn, James V ^a,d   Stiell, Ian G ^c   McDermott, Daniel A ^a   Sellers, Karen L ^a   Kohn, Michael A ^b   Wells, George A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARAMETER; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0942290635     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(03)00823-0     Document Type: Article

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