Racial disparities in stress test utilization in an emergency department chest pain unit

Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-13

  Napoli, Anthony M ^a   Choo, Esther K ^a   Dai, Jessica ^a   Desroches, Bethany ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

chest pain; disparity; observation; racial; stress test

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CORONARY CARE UNIT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHEST PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84874344542     PISSN: 1535282X     EISSN: 15352811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HPC.0b013e31827c9a86     Document Type: Article

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