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Frequency of chest pain in primary care, diagnostic tests performed and final diagnoses
maastrichtuniversity.nl Objective Observational study of patients with chest pain in primary care: determination of incidence, referral rate, diagnostic tests and (agreement between) working and final ...
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The health care burden of acute chest pain
1 It has been estimated that 2.4% of attendances are because of chest pain ... (2) clinical diagnosis of probable ACS: prolonged (over one hour) or recurrent episodes of anginal type pain in a patient ...
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Beyond triage: the diagnostic accuracy of emergency department nursing staff risk assessment in patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes
Objectives To establish the accuracy of emergency department (ED) nursing staff risk assessment using an established chest pain risk score alone and when incorporated with presentation ...
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Gender, race and the presentation of acute coronary syndrome and serious cardiopulmonary diagnoses in ED patients with chest pain
Objective To assess the relationship between reported chest pain symptoms and a diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and serious cardiopulmonary diagnoses (SCPD) in black males, white males, ...
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Clinical presentation in EMS patients with acute chest pain in relation to sex, age and medical history: prospective cohort study
This finding implies that previously reported differences in clinical presentation based on patients’ characteristics may be a general observation in acute chest pain patients and not necessarily ...