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A Method for Improving Arrival-to-electrocardiogram Time in Emergency Department Chest Pain Patients and the Effect on Door-to-balloon Time for ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Academic Emergency Medicine, 09/17/09

Takakuwa KM et al. – The overall percentage of patients with a door–to–ECG time within 10 minutes improved without increasing staffing. An ECG was performed within 10 minutes of arrival for all patients who were STEMI cath alerted, but DTB time under 90 minutes was achieved only when the cath team was on site.

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Chest pain in primary care: Epidemiology and pre-work-up probabilities
The European Journal of General Practice, 11/05/09 Relevance Score: 71%

Gender Differences and Symptom Presentation in Noncardiac Chest Pain
The Female Patient, 10/07/09 Relevance Score: 70%

Qualitative study of pain of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Heart & Lung; The Journal of Acute and Critical Care, 10/21/09 Relevance Score: 68%

Derivation and validation of a sensitive IMA cutpoint to predict cardiac events in patients with chest pain
Emergency Medicine Journal, 10/23/09 Relevance Score: 67%

Cardiac computed tomographic angiography for risk stratification and prediction of late cardiovascular outcome events in patients with a chest pain syndrome
International Journal of Cardiology, 10/08/09 Relevance Score: 67%