A clinical decision instrument for 30-day death after an emergency department visit for atrial fibrillation: The atrial fibrillation in the emergency room (AFTER) Study Presented at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress, October 2014, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 658-668.e6

  Atzema, Clare L ^a,b,d   Dorian, Paul ^c,e   Fang, Jiming ^a   Tu, Jack V ^a,b,d,g   Lee, Douglas S ^a,c,f,g   Chong, Alice S ^a   Austin, Peter C ^a,d,g  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; TROPONIN;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CANADA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEMENTIA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX PAIN; VALIDATION STUDY; AGE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPLICATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; MORTALITY; ONTARIO; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEST PAIN; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; ONTARIO; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84947865103     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.07.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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