Development of a clinical prediction rule for 30-day cardiac events in emergency department patients with chest pain and possible acute coronary syndrome

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Hess, Erik P ^a,b   Brison, Robert J ^c   Perry, Jeffrey J ^d   Calder, Lisa A ^d   Thiruganasambandamoorthy, Venkatesh ^d   Agarwal, Dipti ^a   Sadosty, Annie T ^a   Silvilotti, Marco L A ^c   Jaffe, Allan S ^a   Montori, Victor M ^a,b   Wells, George A ^d   Stiell, Ian G ^d  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 84855971010     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.07.026     Document Type: Article

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