A Clinical Decision Rule to Identify Emergency Department Patients at Low Risk for Acute Coronary Syndrome Who Do Not Need Objective Coronary Artery Disease Testing: The No Objective Testing Rule

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 478-489.e2

  Greenslade, Jaimi H ^a,b,c   Parsonage, William ^a,b,c   Than, Martin ^d,e   Scott, Adam ^a,c   Aldous, Sally ^e   Pickering, John W ^e   Hammett, Christopher J ^a,b   Cullen, Louise ^a,b,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^e CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TROPONIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NURSE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; THORAX PAIN; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; BLOOD; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMARKERS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84941247667     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.08.006     Document Type: Article

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