L Goldman, AJ Kirtane - Annals of internal medicine, 2003 - Am Coll Physicians Few diagnostic decisions in medicine have been more heavily researched than the
approach to the patient with acute chest pain. Despite the advances in both
diagnosing and treating patients presenting with this symptom, cases of ... Cited by 43 - Related articles - All 9 versions
JH Pope, HP Selker - Emergency medicine clinics of North America, 2003 - Elsevier Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the leading cause of death in the United
States; as many as 1.1 million patients per year have myocardial infarctions
[1], about half of these patients present to emergency departments (EDs). ... Cited by 22 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►ecmaj.ca J Christenson, G Innes, D McKnight, B … - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2004 - ecmaj.ca Methods: Consecutive consenting patients aged 25 years or older presenting with
chest discomfort to 2 urban tertiary care emergency departments between June
2000 and April 2001 were prospectively enrolled unless they had a terminal ... Cited by 52 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 13 versions
- ►kallus.com [PDF] CJ Swap, JT Nagurney - Jama, 2005 - Am Med Assoc Context The chest pain history, physical examination, determination of coronary
artery disease (CAD) risk factors, and the initial electrocardiogram compose the
information immediately available to clinicians to help determine the ... Cited by 77 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
TH Lee, EF Cook, MC Weisberg, GW Rouan, … - Journal of general internal medicine, 1990 - Springer Study objective: To determine whether information from a prior electrocardiogram
(ECG) improves diagnostic accu- racy in the emergency department (ED) evaluation
of pa- tients with acute chest pain. Design: Analysis of prospectively ... Cited by 43 - Related articles - All 2 versions
U Ekelund, HJ Nilsson, A Frigyesi, O Torffvit - BMC Emergency Medicine, 2002 - biomedcentral.com 4, 17, 29 and 50% of the patients were allocated to risk categories I-IV
respectively. 74 patients (47%) were hospitalized but only 19 (26%) had ACS as
the discharge diagnose. In risk categories I-IV, ACS rates were 100, 37, 12 ... Cited by 25 - Related articles - Cached - All 15 versions
- ►bmj.com G Quin - British Medical Journal, 2000 - emj.bmj.com The problem with the A&E assessment of these patients lies in the limitations of
diagnostic tests for acute coronary ischaemia—initial ECG is diagnostic of AMI
in only 40–65% of patients and is even less useful in unstable angina. 4 ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
- ►cchil.org [PDF] BM Reilly, AT Evans, JJ Schaider, K Das, JE … - Jama, 2002 - Am Med Assoc You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web
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- ►cineca.it [PDF] BM Reilly, AT Evans, JJ Schaider, Y Wang - The American journal of medicine, 2002 - Elsevier We used 20 simulated cases to compare triage decisions by 147 physicians (46
emergency medicine, 87 internal medicine, and 14 cardiology physicians) with
triage decisions recommended by a previously validated prediction rule. We ... Cited by 24 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
- ►149.142.88.21 [PDF] TH Lee, L Goldman - New England Journal of Medicine, 2000 - content.nejm.org The evaluation of acute chest pain remains challenging, despite many insights
and innovations over the past two decades. The percentage of patients who
present at the emergency department with acute chest pain and are admitted ... Cited by 276 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 19 versions
