Management of chest pain: A prospective study from Norwegian out-of-hours primary care

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Burman, Robert Anders ^a,b   Zakariassen, Erik ^a,b,c   Hunskaar, Steinar ^a,b  

^a National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chest pain; ECG; Out of hours; Primary care; Severity of illness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; THORAX PAIN; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEST PAIN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899054580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-15-51     Document Type: Article

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