Prospective Multicenter Study of Quantitative Pretest Probability Assessment to Exclude Acute Coronary Syndrome for Patients Evaluated in Emergency Department Chest Pain Units

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Mitchell, Alice M ^a   Garvey, J Lee ^a   Chandra, Abhinav ^b   Diercks, Deborah ^c   Pollack, Charles V ^d   Kline, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646030615     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.10.013     Document Type: Article

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