A Clinical Decision Rule to Identify Which Chest Pain Patients Can Safely Be Removed From Cardiac Monitoring in the Emergency Department

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 136-143

  Gatien, Mathieu ^a   Perry, Jeffrey J ^a   Stiell, Ian G ^a   Wielgosz, Andreas ^a   Lee, Jacques S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX PAIN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARRHYTHMIA; CHEST PAIN; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34447578056     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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