Why the study?
Does the establishment of chest pain unit care reduce emergency admissions in patients attending the emergency department with acute chest pain?
Population
Patients attending the emergency department with acute chest pain during the year before and the year after…
Comparison
Establishment of chest pain unit care vs Continuation of routine care
Design
RCT, Cluster randomised
Follow-up
30 days
Authors
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Chest pain unit care does not reduce admissions; challenges assumptions about its effectiveness in lowering emergency department utilization.
Does the establishment of chest pain unit care reduce emergency admissions in patients attending the emergency department with acute chest pain?
The introduction of chest pain unit care did not reduce the proportion of patients with chest pain admitted and may have increased emergency department attendances.
Goodacre et al. (2007) studied this question.
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