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To identify key clinical factors affecting the accuracy of prognosis and estimated survival duration in angina pectoris.

January 1, 1934Archives of internal medicine

Angina Pectoris

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EEEugene C. EppingerBrigham and Women's Hospital

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Clinical evaluation reveals diagnostic inaccuracies and misdated onset in angina pectoris, highlighting substantial biases in survival duration estimates.

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To identify key clinical factors affecting the accuracy of prognosis and estimated survival duration in angina pectoris.
Evaluated the impact of diagnostic errors arising from non-anginal forms of chest pain mistaken for true angina pectoris.
Assessed retrospective patient history reporting regarding the true initial manifestation of mild distress compared to severe acute attacks.
Diagnostic misclassification frequently distorts prognostic estimates when non-anginal chest pain syndromes are conflated with true angina pectoris.
Direct clinical inquiry revealed that true symptom onset often precedes the initial severe chest pain attack by one or more years, indicating that actual post-onset survival duration is systematically underestimated.

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Eugene C. Eppinger (1934) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a13e930f88db7183c598f44 https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1934.00160070125010

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Clinical evaluation reveals diagnostic inaccuracies and misdated onset in angina pectoris, highlighting substantial biases in survival duration estimates.

Angina Pectoris

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Angina Pectoris

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