Low-Risk Patients With Chest Pain in the Emergency Department: Negative 64-MDCT Coronary Angiography May Reduce Length of Stay and Hospital Charges

OBJECTIVE: The current standard-of-care workup of low-risk patients with chest pain in an emergency department takes 12–36 hours and is expensive. We hypothesized that negative 64-MDCT coronary angiography early in the workup of such patients may enable a shorter length of stay and reduce charges. M...

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Auteurs principaux: May, Janet M., Shuman, William P., Strote, Jared N., Branch, Kelley R., Mitsumori, Lee M., Lockhart, David W., Caldwell, James H.
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: 2009
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3743664/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19542407
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2214/AJR.08.2021
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