Chest pain risk assessment in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians using HEART Score

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 138-144

  Bodapati, Sarath Naidu ^a   Gunnarsson, Ronny ^a,b,c   Mcbride, William John ^a   Stone, Richard ^d   Sutcliffe, Steven ^d  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Research and Development Unit   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d CAIRNS BASE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Emergency; Heart score; Indigenous Australian; Risk stratification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; THORAX PAIN; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION GROUP; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TROPONIN;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BIOMARKERS; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION GROUPS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TROPONIN;

EID: 84954271350     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12527     Document Type: Article

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