Risk stratification and role for additional diagnostic testing in patients with acute chest pain and normal high-sensitivity cardiac troponin levels.
Martijn W SmuldersSebastiaan C A M BekkersYvonne J M van CauterenAnna LiefhebberJasper R VermeerJuliette VervuurtMarja P van Dieijen-VisserAlma M A MingelsHans-Peter Brunner-La RoccaPieter C DagnelieJoachim E WildbergerHarry J G M CrijnsBastiaan L J H KietselaerPublished in: PloS one (2018)
Clinical characteristics can be used to identify low risk patients with acute chest pain and normal hs-cTnT levels. Current strategies in the emergency department result in numerous additional tests, which are mostly ordered in patients at very low risk and have a low diagnostic yield.
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