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Cardiac patients’ perceptions of neighboring patients’ risk: influence on psychological stress in the ED and subsequent posttraumatic stress

BACKGROUND: As many as 12% of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients screen positive for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms due to their cardiac event, and emergency department (ED) factors such as overcrowding have been associated with risk for PTSD. We tested the association of patient...

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Autores principales: Konrad, Beatrice, Hiti, David, Chang, Bernard P., Retuerto, Jessica, Julian, Jacob, Edmondson, Donald
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5674847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29110718
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-017-0144-3