Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 45, Issue 6 , Pages 581-585 , June 2005

Changes in the Numeric Descriptive Scale for Pain After Sublingual Nitroglycerin Do Not Predict Cardiac Etiology of Chest Pain

Received 14 July 2004 ,Revised 3 December 2004 ,Accepted 14 December 2004.

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 Author contributions: DBD, EB, and HG conceived the study. All authors participated in data collection. DBD provided statistical advice and managed the data set. DBD and EB drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. DBD takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians annual meeting, October 2002, Seattle, WA.

PII: S0196-0644(04)01806-2

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.12.009

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 45, Issue 6 , Pages 581-585 , June 2005

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