Triage of patients presenting with chest pain to the Emergency Department: Implementation of coronary CT angiography in a large urban health care system

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-65

  Cury, Ricardo C ^a   Feuchtner, Gudrun M ^a,b   Batlle, Juan C ^a   Peñato, Constantino S ^a   Janowitz, Warren ^a   Katzen, Barry T ^a   Ziffer, Jack A ^a  

^a BAPTIST CARDIAC AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Clinical outcome; Coronary ct angiography

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN; TURNAROUND TIME;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIAGE;

EID: 84871902996     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.12.8808     Document Type: Article

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