Clinical decision rules to enable exclusion of acute coronary syndromes in Emergency Department patients with chest pain

Clinical decision rules to enable exclusion of acute coronary syndromes in Emergency Department patients with chest pain

Background: Diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in the Emergency Department (ED) is a topical and contentious issue. Current diagnostic techniques rely on hospital admission for troponin testing. Only a minority of those admitted prove to have ACS while unacceptable proportions of those disc...

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Main Author: Body, Richard
Published: Manchester Metropolitan University 2009
Subjects:
616.1075
acute coronary syndromes : diagnosis : clinical decision rules : sensitivity and specificity : myocardial infarction : biomarkers : troponins : heart fatty acid binding protein : clinical decision making
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