Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 47, Issue 5 , Page 447.e1 , May 2006

Prospective Multicenter Study of Quantitative Pretest Probability Assessment to Exclude Acute Coronary Syndrome for Patients Evaluated in Emergency Department Chest Pain Units

  • Alice M. Mitchell, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC
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  • J. Lee Garvey, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC
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  • Abhinav Chandra, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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  • Deborah Diercks, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California–Davis, Sacramento, CA
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  • Charles V. Pollack, MD, MA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
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  • Jeffrey A. Kline, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Jeffrey A. Kline, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, PO Box 32861, Charlotte, NC 28323-2861; 704-355-7092, fax 704-355-7047

Received 17 May 2005 ,Revised 20 September 2005 ,Accepted 5 October 2005.

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 Supervising editor: Judd E. Hollander, MDAuthor contributions: This study was designed by JAK, who also obtained research funding. AMM, AC, DD, and JAK supervised and conducted the study, including the recruiting of study participants, collection of data, and conduction of follow-up. JLG, AC, and CVP performed adjudication of study outcomes. Primary data analysis was performed by AMM, who drafted the manuscript. JAK and CVP provided advice on design and statistical analysis. All authors contributed significantly to the revisions of the manuscript. JAK takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: This study was funded by an Emergency Medicine Foundation–Riggs Policy grant 2003-2004. Jeffrey A. Kline is an inventor on a patent (pending) related to attribute matching and owns stock in BreathQuant Medical Systems Inc.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(05)01848-2

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.10.013

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 47, Issue 5 , Page 447.e1 , May 2006

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