Utility of Routine Exercise Stress Testing among Intermediate Risk Chest Pain Patients Attending an Emergency Department

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 879-884

  Greenslade, Jaimi H ^a,b,c   Parsonage, William ^a,b,c   Ho, Ariel ^b   Scott, Adam ^a,c   Dalton, Emily ^a   Hammett, Christopher ^a   Brown, Anthony F T ^a,b   Parker, Kate ^a   Cullen, Louise ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Exercise stress test; Objective testing

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE RISK POPULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX PAIN; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EXERCISE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84940793169     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: 14442892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2015.03.025     Document Type: Article

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