Performance of the 2-hour accelerated diagnostic protocol within the American College of Radiology Imaging Network PA 4005 cohort

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 452-460

  Mahler, Simon A ^a   Miller, Chadwick D ^a   Litt, Harold I ^b   Gatsonis, Constantine A ^c   Snyder, Bradley S ^c   Hollander, Judd E ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LOW RISK PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK MANAGEMENT; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; VALIDITY; AGED; CHEST PAIN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; BIOMARKERS; CHEST PAIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84926682704     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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