Long-Term Outcomes Following Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic Assessment: First Australian Data.


Journal

Heart, lung & circulation
ISSN: 1444-2892
Titre abrégé: Heart Lung Circ
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 100963739

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Sep 2021
Historique:
received: 19 08 2020
revised: 21 12 2020
accepted: 07 02 2021
pubmed: 6 4 2021
medline: 30 9 2021
entrez: 5 4 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Australian guidelines recommend prompt evaluation of patients presenting to emergency departments with chest pain, found to be low risk for acute coronary syndromes, and cardiologist-led Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinics (RACPC) have been proposed as a model to provide such care. Initial Australian experience of RACPCs suggests excellent short-term outcomes, and that they are cost-beneficial, though little data exists examining longer-term outcomes. The present study therefore examines such longer-term outcomes to beyond 5 years following presentation to an RACPC in an Australian tertiary metropolitan centre.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33814303
pii: S1443-9506(21)00072-X
doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2021.02.008
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

1309-1313

Informations de copyright

Crown Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Chris Yu (C)

Cardiology Department, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Susana Brazete (S)

Cardiology Department, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Janice Gullick (J)

Cardiology Department, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

M Tessa Garcia (MT)

Cardiology Department, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

David Brieger (D)

Cardiology Department, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Leonard Kritharides (L)

Cardiology Department, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Chris Naoum (C)

Cardiology Department, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Austin C C Ng (ACC)

Cardiology Department, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Harry C Lowe (HC)

Cardiology Department, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Electronic address: h.lowe@bigpond.net.au.

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