Does General Practitioners' assessment based on symptoms and signs alone accurately diagnose or exclude coronary heart disease or acute coronary syndrome in chest pain patients in primary care?
Clinical assessment by general practitioners using only symptoms and signs is insufficient to accurately rule in or rule out coronary heart disease in primary care chest pain patients.
GPs' evaluation of chest pain patients, based on symptoms and signs alone, was not sufficiently accurate for diagnosing or excluding coronary heart disease or acute coronary syndrome.
Bösner et al. (Tue,) studied this question.