Utility of the emergency department observation unit in ensuring stress testing in low-risk chest pain patients

Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 122-124

  Madsen, Troy ^a   Mallin, Michael ^a   Bledsoe, Joseph ^a   Bossart, Philip ^a   Davis, Virgil ^a   Gee, Christopher ^a   Barton, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Observation unit; Stress test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOLOGIST; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE TEST; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OBSERVATION UNIT; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX PAIN; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGE FACTORS; AMBULATORY CARE; CHEST PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349122137     PISSN: 1535282X     EISSN: 15352811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HPC.0b013e3181b00782     Document Type: Article

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