Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 565-574, December 2004

Is the initial diagnostic impression of “noncardiac chest pain” adequate to exclude cardiac disease?

From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC (Miller, Hoekstra); Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ (Tiffany); Institute of Health Policy and Health Services Research, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (Lindsell); the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (Pollack, Hollander); the Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH (Khandelwal); the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (Gibler); and the Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC (Chandra)

Received 4 August 2003; received in revised form 20 January 2004 and 12 March 2004; accepted 15 March 2004. published online 19 August 2004.

See editorial, p. 575.

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 Dr. Miller and Dr. Hoekstra were formerly affiliated with The Ohio State University Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbus, OH.

 The abstract was presented in part in poster format at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, May 2001.

 The i∗trACS registry was supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals.

 Author contributions: The i∗trACS registry, patient enrollment, and data collection were supervised by JWH, CVP, JEH, and BRT. All authors contributed to the research question and concept of the data analysis. CDM, CJL, and SK performed the chart review. Statistical advice and data analysis were performed by CJL. CDM, SK, and JWH drafted the Introduction and Discussion. Materials and Methods and Results were drafted by CJL and CDM. All authors contributed to manuscript revision. CDM takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(04)00290-2

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.03.021

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  • Correction

    Annals of Emergency Medicine January 2005 (Vol. 45, Issue 1, Page 87)

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 565-574, December 2004

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