Usefulness of Age and Gender in the Early Triage of Patients With Acute Chest Pain Having Cardiac Computed Tomographic Angiography

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1165-1170

  Bamberg, Fabian ^a,b   Truong, Quynh A ^a   Blankstein, Ron ^a   Nasir, Khurram ^a   Lee, Hang ^a   Rogers, Ian S ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^c   Brady, Thomas J ^a   Nagurney, John T ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^b   Hoffmann, Udo ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METOPROLOL;

ACUTE CHEST PAIN; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BAYES THEOREM; CHEST PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIAGE;

EID: 71849096205     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.06.029     Document Type: Article

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