Chest pain in the emergency department: The case against our current practice of routine noninvasive testing

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 1506-1509

  Prasad, Vinay ^a   Cheung, Michael ^a   Cifu, Adam ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; RADIOISOTOPE; TROPONIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; EMERGENCY WARD; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICARE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONCARDIAC CHEST PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868271173     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.4037     Document Type: Article

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