Higher emergency physician chest pain hospitalization rates do not lead to improved patient outcomes

S Natsui, BC Sun, E Shen, RF Redberg… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Wide variation exists for hospital admission rates for the evaluation of possible
acute coronary syndrome, but there are limited data on physician-level variation. Our aim is …

Variation in chest pain emergency department admission rates and acute myocardial infarction and death within 30 days in the Medicare population

PG Cotterill, P Deb, WH Shrank… - Academic Emergency …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The objective was to assess the relationship between emergency department
(ED) admission rates for Medicare beneficiaries with chest pain and outcomes, specifically …

[HTML][HTML] Emergency department visits and subsequent hospital admission trends for patients with chest pain and a history of coronary artery disease

C Eichelberger, A Patel, Z Ding, CD Pericone… - Cardiology and …, 2020 - Springer
Introduction Hospitalization is the largest component of health care spending in the United
States. Most hospitalized patients first visit the emergency department (ED), where …

Low adverse event rates but high emergency department utilization in chest pain patients treated in an emergency department observation unit

AM Napoli, J Baird, S Tran, J Wang - Critical Pathways in …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Nearly 40% of all previously admitted chest pain patients re-present to the
emergency department (ED) within 1 year regardless of stress testing, and nearly 5% of …

Risk for clinically relevant adverse cardiac events in patients with chest pain at hospital admission

MB Weinstock, S Weingart, F Orth… - JAMA internal …, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Patients with potentially ischemic chest pain are commonly admitted to the
hospital or observed after a negative evaluation in the emergency department (ED) owing to …

[HTML][HTML] Physician variability in management of emergency department patients with chest pain

PB Smulowitz, O Barrett, MM Hall… - Western Journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods We conducted a single-institution retrospective observational study of ED patients
with a diagnosis of chest pain as determined by diagnostic code from our hospital …

Implementation of a risk stratification and management pathway for acute chest pain in the emergency department

CW Baugh, JO Greenberg, SA Mahler… - Critical pathways in …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Chest pain is a common complaint in the emergency department, and a small
but important minority represents an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Variation in diagnostic …

Healthcare cost burden of acute chest pain presentations

L Dawson, E Nehme, Z Nehme, E Zomer… - Emergency Medicine …, 2023 - emj.bmj.com
Background This study aimed to estimate the direct healthcare cost burden of acute chest
pain attendances presenting to ambulance in Victoria, Australia, and to identify key cost …

Emergency physician risk estimates and admission decisions for chest pain: a web-based scenario study

DL Schriger, M Menchine, W Wiechmann… - Annals of Emergency …, 2018 - Elsevier
Study objective We conducted this study to better understand how emergency physicians
estimate risk and make admission decisions for patients with low-risk chest pain. Methods …

Emergency department volume and outcomes for patients after chest pain assessment

DT Ko, ND Dattani, PC Austin, MJ Schull… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Chest pain is one of the most common reasons for emergency department (ED)
visits in developed countries. Whether higher volume EDs have better outcomes, specifically …