Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 56, Issue 3 , Pages 220-229 , September 2010

Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring in the Emergency Department: Identifying Which Patients With Chest Pain Can Be Safely Discharged Home

Presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association, November 2008, New Orleans, LA; and at the 9th Biennial International Conference of Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Imaging, May 2009, Barcelona, Spain.

Received 9 September 2009 ,Revised 5 January 2010 ,Accepted 13 January 2010.

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 Supervising editor: Keith A. Marill, MD

 Author contributions: JJM conceived and initiated the study, proposed its design, and interpreted the data. CMP participated in the design of the study. FN, SMC, and MEF assisted with data acquisition. JP and LEP performed statistical analysis. SMC and JJM drafted the article. CMP and MEF provided critical review of the article. FN, SMC, JP, and LEP reviewed the article, and all authors approved the final draft. All the authors had full access to all of the data in this study and take full responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the analysis. JJM takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article that might create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. Supported in part by a grant from the Methodist Hospital Foundation, Houston, TX, whose representatives assisted in the initial data collection for the trial.

 Publication date: Available online February 6, 2010.

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 Please see page 221 for the Editor's Capsule Summary of this article.

PII: S0196-0644(10)00040-5

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.01.017

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 56, Issue 3 , Pages 220-229 , September 2010

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