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SUBMITTER: Kavsak PA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7565964 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kavsak Peter A PA Cerasuolo Joshua O JO Mondoux Shawn E SE Sherbino Jonathan J Ma Jinhui J Hoard Brock K BK Perez Richard R Seow Hsien H Ko Dennis T DT Worster Andrew A
Journal of clinical medicine 20200912 9
For patients with chest pain who are deemed clinically to be low risk and discharged home from the emergency department (ED), it is unclear whether further laboratory tests can improve risk stratification. Here, we investigated the utility of a clinical chemistry score (CCS), which comprises plasma glucose, the estimated glomerular filtration rate, and high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (I or T) to generate a common score for risk stratification. In a cohort of 14,676 chest pain patients in the p ...[more]