Comparison of usual care and the HEART score for effectively and safely discharging patients with low-risk chest pain in the emergency department: would the score always help?
Guangmei WangWen ZhengShuo WuJingjing MaHe ZhangJiaqi ZhengJiali WangTonghui XuYu-Guo ChenPublished in: Clinical cardiology (2019)
At this institution, usual care identified many more patients for discharge than the HEART score would have without apparently different outcomes in discharged patients with lower vs higher HEART scores. The HEART score would not appear to provide helpful risk stratification.