Syncope risk stratification in the ED: Directions for future research

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 503-506

  Sun, Benjamin ^a   Costantino, Giorgio ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATRIURETIC FACTOR; TROPONIN;

ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FAINTNESS; FUTUROLOGY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK STRATIFICATION; SCIENTIST; VALIDATION STUDY;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNCOPE;

EID: 84877898435     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12122     Document Type: Review

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