Response to "Failure to Validate the San Francisco Syncope Rule in an Independent Emergency Department Population"

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 693-

  McDermott, Daniel ^a   Quinn, Jim ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYNCOPE;

ADULT; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEART DISEASES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; OBSERVATION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNCOPE;

EID: 64549117337     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.09.039     Document Type: Letter

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5. Reed M.J., Newby D.E., Coull A.J., et al. The Risk stratification Of Syncope in the Emergency department (ROSE) pilot study: a comparison of existing syncope guidelines. Emerg Med J. 24 (2007) 270-275