Validating the Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (MACS) and Troponin-only Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (T-MACS) rules for the prediction of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 517-523

  Greenslade, Jaimi H ^a,b,c   Nayer, Robert ^b   Parsonage, William ^a,b,c   Doig, Shaela ^a   Young, Joanna ^d   Pickering, John W ^d   Than, Martin ^d,e   Hammett, Christopher ^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

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANCHESTER ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME RULE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX PAIN; TROPONIN ONLY MANCHESTER ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME RULE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLICATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

TROPONIN; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CHEST PAIN; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TROPONIN; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

EID: 85025095316     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2016-206366     Document Type: Article

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