The challenge of chest pain in the emergency room: Now and the future

European Heart Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 656-

  Nasrallah, Najib ^a   Steiner, Hillel ^a   Hasin, Yonathan ^a  

^a Baruch Padeh Poria Medical Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA STENOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST CONTROL; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MYOCARDITIS; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NOTE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERICARDITIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX PAIN; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CHEST PAIN; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PAIN CLINICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 79952857831     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehr024     Document Type: Note

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