Retrospective Comparison of Cardiac Testing and Results on Inpatients with Low Pretest Probability Compared with Moderate/High Pretest Probability for Coronary Artery Disease
Conclusion:
Follow-up provocative testing of all patients admitted/observed after emergency department presentation with chest pain is unlikely to find CAD in patients with low pretest probability. Testing all low-probability patients puts them at increased risk for unnecessary invasive confirmatory testing. Further prospective testing is needed to confirm these retrospective results.
Source: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine - Category: Primary Care Authors: Lear, A., Huber, M., Canada, A., Robertson, J., Bosman, E., Zyzanski, S. Tags: Original Research Source Type: research