Risk tolerance for the exclusion of potentially life-threatening diseases in the ED

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 540-544

  Pines, Jesse M ^a,b   Szyld, Demian ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; THALLIUM 201;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE TEST; GOLD STANDARD; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL PUNCTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34249328099     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2006.10.011     Document Type: Article

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