Why does the general practitioner refer patients with chest pain not-urgently to the specialist or urgently to the emergency department? Influence of the certainty of the initial diagnosis

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 259-265

  Bruyninckx, Rudi ^a   Van Den Bruel, Ann ^a   Aertgeerts, Bert ^a   Van Casteren, Viviane ^b   Buntinx, Frank ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Primary care; Referral

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; THORAX PAIN;

BELGIUM; CHEST PAIN; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65349195548     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.64.2.2036147     Document Type: Article

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