Why the study?
Does clinical assessment in a one-stop chest pain clinic reliably identify patients at high risk of subsequent cardiac events?
Population
660 patients with stable chest pain referred for outpatient cardiac assessment, with a normal resting ECG…
Comparison
Clinical assessment and simple non-invasive… vs Clinical assessment diagnosing non-cardiac chest…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
mean 622 +/- 338 days
Authors
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Clinical assessment stratifies cardiac risk in chest pain clinics; supports stratification but leaves open prospective validation before practice change.
Does clinical assessment in a one-stop chest pain clinic reliably identify patients at high risk of subsequent cardiac events?
Clinical assessment in an outpatient chest pain clinic can reliably stratify patients into high and low risk for subsequent hard cardiac events.
Jain et al. (1997) studied this question.
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