Patient-related variables predicting acute coronary syndrome following admission for chest pain of possible coronary origin

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-21

  Gorelik, Oleg ^a   Almoznino Sarafian, Dorit ^a   Yarovoi, Israel ^a   Alon, Irena ^a   Shteinshnaider, Miriam ^a   Chachashvily, Shulamit ^a   Modai, David ^a   Cohen, Natan ^a  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Chest pain; Myocardial infarction; Patient related variables; Risk stratification

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORAX PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33646968677     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200602000-00003     Document Type: Article

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