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Missed Opportunities in the Primary Care Management of Early Acute Ischemic Heart Disease

Author(s) -

Thomas D. Sequist

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinte.166.20.2237

Subject(s) - medicine , chest pain , myocardial infarction , emergency department , odds ratio , framingham risk score , confidence interval , emergency medicine , triage , disease , acute care , coronary artery disease , intensive care medicine , health care , nursing , economics , economic growth

The role of primary care clinicians (physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants) in evaluating acute cardiac ischemia is not well documented in office-based settings. Decision aids developed in the emergency department and other settings may help identify missed opportunities to intervene in symptomatic outpatients before hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction.

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