Background: Most Canadian emergency departments use an unstructured, individualized
approach to patients with chest pain, without data to support the safety and efficiency of this …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Current risk stratification tools do not identify very-low-risk patients
who can be safely discharged without prolonged emergency department (ED) observation, …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Chest pain units have been used to monitor and investigate emergency
department (ED) patients with potential ischemic chest pain to reduce the possibility of …

Objectives:Current guidelines emphasize that emergency department (ED) patients at low
risk for potential ischemic chest pain cannot be discharged without extensive investigations or …

Objective The emergency department assessment of chest pain score accelerated diagnostic
pathway (EDACS-ADP) facilitates low-risk ED chest pain patients early to outpatient …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Emergency department (ED) crowding has been associated with a
variety of adverse outcomes. Current guidelines suggest that patients with potentially ischemic …

INTRODUCTION: Many US emergency departments (ED) have developed diagnostic
pathways for chest pain evaluation. Canadian EDs tend to use an unstructured/individualized …

1. Christenson J, Innes G, McKnight D, Boychuk B, Grafstein E, Thompson CR, et al. Safety
and efficiency of emergency department assessment of chest discomfort. CMAJ 2004; 170 (12…

The probability of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in individual patients presenting with
chest pain is best estimated using information from subgroups with similar clinical features. …

OBJECTIVE: It is unclear whether patients discharged inadvertently with acute coronary
syndrome (missed ACS) are different from those with ACS. Our objective was to determine …