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ICare-ACS (Improving Care Processes for Patients With Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome)
Author(s) -
Martin Than,
John W. Pickering,
Jeremy M. Dryden,
Sarah J. Lord,
Stuart A. Aitken,
Sally Aldous,
Kate Allan,
Michael Ardagh,
John Bonning,
Rosie Callender,
Laura R.E. Chapman,
J. Christiansen,
Andre P.J. Cromhout,
Louise Cullen,
Joanne M. Deely,
Gerard Devlin,
Katherine Ferrier,
Christopher M Florkowski,
Christopher Frampton,
Peter M. George,
Gregory J. Hamilton,
Allan S. Jaffe,
Andrew Kerr,
Gregory Luke Larkin,
R M Makower,
Timothy James Matthews,
William Parsonage,
W. Frank Peacock,
Brad Peckler,
Niels C van Pelt,
Louise Poynton,
Mark Richards,
Anthony Scott,
Mark Simmonds,
David Smyth,
Oliver P. Thomas,
Andrew To,
Stephen A. Du Toit,
Richard W. Troughton,
Kim Yates
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.117.031984
Subject(s) - medicine , acute coronary syndrome , odds ratio , confidence interval , emergency department , troponin , emergency medicine , clinical pathway , troponin t , care pathway , myocardial infarction , health care , economics , nursing , psychiatry , economic growth
Efforts to safely reduce length of stay for emergency department patients with symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) have had mixed success. Few system-wide efforts affecting multiple hospital emergency departments have ever been evaluated. We evaluated the effectiveness of a nationwide implementation of clinical pathways for potential ACS in disparate hospitals.

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