Low-risk young adult patients with chest pain may not benefit from routine cardiac stress testing: A Bayesian analysis

Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 170-173

  Dawson, Matthew ^a   Youngquist, Scott ^a   Bledsoe, Joseph ^a   Madsen, Troy ^a   Bossart, Philip ^a   Davis, Virgil ^a   Barton, Erik ^a  

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

Author keywords

chest pain; EKG; observation unit; stress testing

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TROPONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE TEST; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; THORAX PAIN; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BAYES THEOREM; CHEST PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; TROPONIN T; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956444514     PISSN: 1535282X     EISSN: 15352811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HPC.0b013e3181e6830c     Document Type: Article

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