Health Management for Older Adults III - Early Evaluation of Patients with Chest Pain -- The Word

< i > Early Evaluation of Patients with Chest Pain -- The Word

Many are advocating chest pain evaluation centers, generally housed in emergency departments and promoting the idea that patients can be evaluated quickly and efficiently using sometimes rather sophisticated testing.

The goals of these chest pain centers include decreasing the number of inappropriate diagnoses of patients with cardiac ischemia plus decreasing the number of inappropriate diagnoses of patients who have no cardiac ischemia.