Chest pain in primary care: Is the localization of pain diagnostically helpful in the critical evaluation of patients? - A cross sectional study

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bösner, Stefan ^a   Bönisch, Katharina ^a   Haasenritter, Jörg ^a   Schlegel, Patrice ^a   Hüllermeier, Eyke ^a   Donner Banzhoff, Norbert ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Coronary heart disease; Pain localization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STOMACH DISEASE; THORAX INJURY; THORAX PAIN; TIETZE SYNDROME;

CHEST PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEUROPNEUMONIA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STOMACH DISEASES; THORACIC INJURIES; TIETZE'S SYNDROME;

EID: 84885563563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-14-154     Document Type: Article

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