Emergency department management of syncope: need for standardization and improved risk stratification

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 619-627

  Thiruganasambandamoorthy, Venkatesh ^a,b   Taljaard, Monica ^a,b   Stiell, Ian G ^a,b   Sivilotti, Marco L A ^c   Murray, Heather ^c   Vaidyanathan, Aparna ^b   Rowe, Brian H ^d   Calder, Lisa A ^a,b   Lang, Eddy ^e   McRae, Andrew ^e   Sheldon, Robert ^f   Wells, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disposition decision making; Emergency department; Management; Mortality; Practice variation; Risk perception; Serious outcomes outside the hospital; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYNCOPE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SYNCOPE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937973482     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-015-1237-1     Document Type: Article

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