Validation of the Vancouver Chest Pain Rule: A prospective cohort study

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 837-842

  Jalili, Mohammad ^a   Hejripour, Zia ^a   Honarmand, Amir Reza ^b   Pourtabatabaei, Nasim ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX PAIN; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VALIDATION STUDY; VANCOUVER CHEST PAIN RULE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CANADA; CHEST PAIN; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863974434     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01399.x     Document Type: Review

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