BACKGROUND The HEART score and North American Chest Pain Rule (NACPR) are decision rules designed to identify acute chest pain patients for early discharge without stress testing or cardiac imaging. This study compares the clinical utility of these decision rules combined with serial troponin determinations. METHODS AND RESULTS A secondary analysis was conducted of 1005 participants in the My...

OBJECTIVES To further explore the relationship of early newborn hospital discharge and readmission for jaundice, and to determine if early hospital discharge was associated with increased severity of jaundice among those readmitted. METHODS We performed a population-based case-control study using Washington State vital statistics, birth certificates, and hospital discharge abstracts from 1991...