How to improve the management of chest pain: Hospitalists and use of prediction rules

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 242-247

  Cakir, Beril ^a   Blue, Kay ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Chest pain; Hospitalist; Prediction rules

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST CONTROL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL STAFF; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT T TEST; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FORECASTING; HEART INFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SYNDROME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITALISTS; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT ADMISSION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SYNDROME;

EID: 34247618364     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31802f7f94     Document Type: Article

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