Effectiveness of EDACS Versus ADAPT Accelerated Diagnostic Pathways for Chest Pain: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial Embedded Within Practice

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 93-102.e1

  Than, Martin P ^a   Pickering, John W ^a,b   Aldous, Sally J ^a   Cullen, Louise ^c   Frampton, Christopher M A ^b   Peacock, W Frank ^d   Jaffe, Allan S ^e   Goodacre, Steve W ^f   Richards, A Mark ^b,g   Ardagh, Michael W ^a   Deely, Joanne M ^a   Florkowski, Chris M ^a,b   George, Peter ^a,b   Hamilton, Gregory J ^a   Jardine, David L ^a,b   Troughton, Richard W ^a,b   Van Wyk, Pieter ^a   Young, Joanna M ^a   Bannister, Laura ^a   Lord, Sally J ^h  

^a CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

ACCELERATED DIAGNOSTIC PATHWAY SCORE; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT ASSESSMENT OF CHEST PAIN SCORE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LOW RISK PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT ATTENDANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THORAX PAIN; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; CHEST PAIN; CLINICAL PATHWAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEST PAIN; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959267886     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2016.01.001     Document Type: Article

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