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Does age impact the diagnostic performance of the ESC 0/1h-algorithms for early diagnosis of myocardial infarction in patients presenting to the emergency department?
Does age impact the diagnostic performance of the ESC 0/1h-algorithms for early diagnosis of myocardial infarction in patients presenting to the emergency department?
While the ESC 0/1h-algorithms maintain high rule-out safety across all ages, their rule-in accuracy and overall triage efficacy decrease significantly in older patients, suggesting alternative cut-offs may be beneficial for this demographic.
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Maintains safe rule-out performance across all ages but warrants caution for rule-in diagnoses in older.
Boeddinghaus et al. (2018) studied this question.
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