Background: Chest pain can be caused by various conditions, with life-threatening cardiac
disease being of greatest concern. Prediction scores to rule out coronary artery disease …

Background Chest pain raises concern for the possibility of coronary heart disease. Scoring
methods have been developed to identify coronary heart disease in emergency settings, but …

Background Diagnosing the aetiology of chest pain is challenging. There is still a lack of
data on the diagnostic accuracy of signs and symptoms for acute coronary events in low …

Background Acute chest pain is a frequent reason to attend an emergency room, and
various instruments for calculating the probability of an acute coronary syndrome exist …

Background Chest pain remains a diagnostic challenge: physicians do not want to miss an
acute coronary syndrome (ACS), but, they also wish to avoid unnecessary additional …

Background The Marburg Heart Score (MHS) aims to assist GPs in safely ruling out coronary
heart disease (CHD) in patients presenting with chest pain, and to guide management …

This paper provides an update on the European Society of Cardiology task force report on
the management of chest pain. Its main purpose is to provide an update on the decision …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Evaluation of emergency department (ED) patients with chest pain who
are at low risk for acute coronary syndrome is resource intensive and may lead to false …

Aims The aim was to validate, update, and extend the Diamond–Forrester model for
estimating the probability of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) in a contemporary …

Objective To identify and assess the performance of clinical decision rules (CDR) for chest
pain in general practice. Design Systematic review of diagnostic studies. Data sources …