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A study to derive a clinical decision rule for triage of emergency department patients with chest pain: design and methodology

BACKGROUND: Chest pain is the second most common chief complaint in North American emergency departments. Data from the U.S. suggest that 2.1% of patients with acute myocardial infarction and 2.3% of patients with unstable angina are misdiagnosed, with slightly higher rates reported in a recent Cana...

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Autores principales: Hess, Erik P, Wells, George A, Jaffe, Allan, Stiell, Ian G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2275746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18254973
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-227X-8-3