Chest pain in the emergency room: A multicenter validation of the heart score

Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 164-169

  Backus, Barbra E ^a   Six, A Jacob ^b   Kelder, Johannes C ^c   Mast, Thomas P ^d   Van Den Akker, Frederieke ^d   Mast, E Gijis ^c   Monnink, Stefan H J ^e   Van Tooren, Rob M ^f   Doevendans, Pieter A F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Zuwe Hofpoort Ziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

^c ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e REINIER DE GRAAF HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^f Department of Psychiatry   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

acute coronary syndromes; chest pain; emergency room; risk score

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THORAX PAIN;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHEST PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIOVASCULAR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TROPONIN T;

EID: 77956450210     PISSN: 1535282X     EISSN: 15352811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HPC.0b013e3181ec36d8     Document Type: Article

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