Chest pain during admission in a reference cardiac emergency unit
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Yield of routine provocative cardiac testing among patients in an emergency department-based chest pain unit.
IMPORTANCE The American Heart Association recommends routine provocative cardiac testing in accelerated diagnostic protocols for coronary ischemia. The diagnostic and therapeutic yield of this approach are unknown. OBJECTIVE To assess the yield of routine provocative cardiac testing in an emergency department-based chest pain unit. DESIGN AND SETTING We examined a prospectively collected da...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista da Rede de Enfermagem do Nordeste
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2175-6783,1517-3852
DOI: 10.15253/2175-6783.2014000300016