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DO EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS FOLLOW THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS’ POLICY REGARDING THE EVALUATION OF NONTRAUMATIC CHEST PAIN IN THE ED?
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DO EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS FOLLOW THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS’ POLICY REGARDING THE EVALUATION OF NONTRAUMATIC CHEST PAIN IN THE ED?

Lawrence M. Lewis, Thomas Heston, Robert Mecker, Laura Lasater and Carol Rush
Southern medical journal (Birmingham, Ala.), Vol.84(Supplement), p.23
09/1991

Abstract

ACEP acute chest pain Health and Medicine
This study looked at 718 patients evaluated by 97 physicians in 10 regional hospitals. The correctness of the ED diagnosis was correlated to the cumulative score for adherence to ACEP rules (p = 0.0003).

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