Emergency Department Triage of Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients and the Effect on Outcomes

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 736-745

  Atzema, Clare L ^a,b   Austin, Peter C ^a   Tu, Jack V ^a,b   Schull, Michael J ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANADIAN TRIAGE AND ACUITY SCALE SCORE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THERAPY DELAY;

AGED; BENCHMARKING; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ONTARIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAGE;

EID: 67349103330     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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