Open AccessDiagnostic Uncertainty and Costs Associated With Current Emergency Department Evaluation of Low Risk Chest Pain
Author(s) -
Rahul K. Khare,
Emilie S. Powell,
Arjun K. Venkatesh,
D. Mark Courtney
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
critical pathways in cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1535-282X
pISSN - 1535-2811
DOI - 10.1097/hpc.0b013e318176faa1
Subject(s) - medicine , chest pain , emergency department , cardiac catheterization , indeterminate , stress testing (software) , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , cohort , coronary artery disease , observational study , stress test , mathematics , psychiatry , computer science , pure mathematics , programming language , finance , economics
Of all stress tests done in low risk Emergency Department observation units (OU), a small, but significant number may be reported as positive or indeterminate. The objective of this study is to quantify the prevalence and costs associated with positive and indeterminate stress tests that result in negative cardiac catheterization.