HEART score: a simple and useful tool that may lower the proportion of chest pain patients who are admitted.

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Evaluation of patients with chest pain in the emergency department is challenging. HEART score can be easily used and includes history, electrocardiogram (ECG), age, risk factors, and troponin. The aims were to validate this score and estimate to what extent it can reduce the admission rate.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Crit Pathw Cardiol

Title: Critical pathways in cardiology

Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

ISSN (Electronic): 1535-2811

ISSN (Print): 1535-2811

Publication date (Electronic): Sep 2013

Volume: 12

Issue: 3

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[1 ] Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden. a.Melki@karolinska.se

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Publisher Item ID: 00132577-201309000-00004

DOI: 10.1097/HPC.0b013e3182953359

PubMed ID: 23892942

SO-VID: 875c2b98-313d-4e3b-a539-3e748d6f49f0

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