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'Chest pain typicality' in suspected acute coronary syndromes and the impact of clinical experience

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'What the hell is water?' How to use deliberate clinical inertia in common emergency department situations

scientific article published on 25 April 2018

2-Hour accelerated diagnostic protocol to assess patients with chest pain symptoms using contemporary troponins as the only biomarker: the ADAPT trial

scientific article published on 09 May 2012

A 2-h diagnostic protocol to assess patients with chest pain symptoms in the Asia-Pacific region (ASPECT): a prospective observational validation study

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A 2-hour diagnostic protocol for possible cardiac chest pain in the emergency department: a randomized clinical trial

scientific article published in January 2014

A 2-hour thrombolysis in myocardial infarction score outperforms other risk stratification tools in patients presenting with possible acute coronary syndromes: comparison of chest pain risk stratification tools

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

A Clinical Decision Rule to Identify Emergency Department Patients at Low Risk for Acute Coronary Syndrome Who Do Not Need Objective Coronary Artery Disease Testing: The No Objective Testing Rule

scientific article published on 10 September 2015

A Randomized Trial of a 1-Hour Troponin T Protocol in Suspected Acute Coronary Syndromes: The Rapid Assessment of Possible Acute Coronary Syndrome in the Emergency Department With High-Sensitivity Troponin T Study (RAPID-TnT)

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

A Risk Assessment Score and Initial High-sensitivity Troponin Combine to Identify Low Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Emergency Department

scientific article published on 13 November 2017

A critical evaluation of the Beckman Coulter Access hsTnI: Analytical performance, reference interval and concordance

scientific article published on 08 March 2018

A new improved accelerated diagnostic protocol safely identifies low-risk patients with chest pain in the emergency department

scientific article published in May 2012

A novel diagnostic protocol to identify patients suitable for discharge after a single high-sensitivity troponin

scientific article published on 17 February 2015

A randomized trial of a 1-hour troponin T protocol in suspected acute coronary syndromes: Design of the Rapid Assessment of Possible ACS In the emergency Department with high sensitivity Troponin T (RAPID-TnT) study.

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Accelerated diagnostic protocol using high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T in acute chest pain patients

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Admission glycaemia and its association with acute coronary syndrome in Emergency Department patients with chest pain

scientific article published on 24 October 2014

Agreement Between Patient-reported and Cardiology-adjudicated Medical History in Patients With Possible Ischemic Chest Pain: An Observational Study.

scientific article published on September 2016

Application of High-Sensitivity Troponin in Suspected Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 1 June 2019

Application of the Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction in Clinical Practice

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Appropriate Use of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Levels in Patients With Suspected Acute Myocardial Infarction-Reply.

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Appropriate use of serum troponin testing in general practice: a narrative review

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Asia-Pacific consensus statement on the optimal use of high-sensitivity troponin assays in acute coronary syndromes diagnosis: focus on hs-TnI.

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Assessment of the 2016 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence high-sensitivity troponin rule-out strategy

scientific article published on September 2017

Assessment of the European Society of Cardiology 0-Hour/1-Hour Algorithm to Rule-Out and Rule-In Acute Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

Association of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Concentration With Cardiac Outcomes in Patients With Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome

scientific article published on 11 November 2017

Availability of highly sensitive troponin assays and acute coronary syndrome care: insights from the SNAPSHOT registry

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B-Type Natriuretic Peptides and Cardiac Troponins for Diagnosis and Risk-Stratification of Syncope

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

CSANZ Position Statement on the Evaluation of Patients Presenting With Suspected Acute Coronary Syndromes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Cardiovascular Disease: Impact of Biomarkers, Proteomics, and Genomics

scientific article published on 01 January 2017

Change to costs and lengths of stay in the emergency department and the Brisbane protocol: an observational study.

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

Characteristics and occurrence of type 2 myocardial infarction in emergency department patients: a prospective study

scientific article published on 07 August 2017

Circadian, weekly, seasonal, and temperature-dependent patterns of syncope aetiology in patients at increased risk of cardiac syncope

scientific article published in March 2019

Clinical chemistry score versus high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I and T tests alone to identify patients at low or high risk for myocardial infarction or death at presentation to the emergency department

scientific article published on 1 August 2018

Combining High Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I and Cardiac Troponin T in the Early Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Combining presentation high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I and glucose measurements to rule-out an acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting to emergency department with chest pain

scientific article published on 5 December 2014

Comparing the No Objective Testing Rule to the HEART Pathway

scientific article published on 25 July 2017

Comparison of early biomarker strategies with the Heart Foundation of Australia/Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand guidelines for risk stratification of emergency department patients with chest pain.

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Comparison of high sensitivity troponin T and I assays in the diagnosis of non-ST elevation acute myocardial infarction in emergency patients with chest pain

scientific article published on 5 December 2013

Comparison of new point-of-care troponin assay with high sensitivity troponin in diagnosing myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 28 September 2014

Comparison of three risk stratification rules for predicting patients with acute coronary syndrome presenting to an Australian emergency department

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

Comprehensive standardized data definitions for acute coronary syndrome research in emergency departments in Australasia

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Corrigendum to 'National Heart Foundation of Australia & Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Australian Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes 2016' Heart Lung and Circulation volume 25, (2016) 898 - 952.

scientific article published in October 2017

Cost and outcomes of assessing patients with chest pain in an Australian emergency department.

scientific article published on May 2015

Decision limits and the reporting of cardiac troponin: Meeting the needs of both the cardiologist and the ED physician

scientific article published on 14 November 2014

Deliberate clinical inertia: Using meta-cognition to improve decision-making

scientific article published on 02 July 2018

Delta troponin for the early diagnosis of AMI in emergency patients with chest pain.

scientific article published on 10 April 2013

Detectable High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin within the Population Reference Interval Conveys High 5-Year Cardiovascular Risk: An Observational Study

scientific article published on 14 May 2018

Developing a value proposition for high-sensitivity troponin testing

scientific article published on 6 December 2017

Development and validation of the Emergency Department Assessment of Chest pain Score and 2 h accelerated diagnostic protocol

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Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction Using a High-Sensitivity Troponin I 1-Hour Algorithm

scientific article published on July 2016

Diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in the presence of left bundle branch block

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Diagnostic Accuracy of a New High-Sensitivity Troponin I Assay and Five Accelerated Diagnostic Pathways for Ruling Out Acute Myocardial Infarction and Acute Coronary Syndrome

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Diagnostic and prognostic utility of early measurement with high-sensitivity troponin T assay in patients presenting with chest pain

scientific article published on 30 January 2012

Differences in Presentation, Management and Outcomes in Women and Men Presenting to an Emergency Department With Possible Cardiac Chest Pain

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

Direct Comparison of 2 Rule-Out Strategies for Acute Myocardial Infarction: 2-h Accelerated Diagnostic Protocol vs 2-h Algorithm.

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Diving into research: A practical guide for emergency medicine trainees

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Does Uric Acid Level Provide Additional Risk Stratification Information in Emergency Patients With Symptoms of Possible Acute Coronary Syndrome?

scientific article published in December 2016

Don't just do something, stand there! The value and art of deliberate clinical inertia.

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Early Rule-Out and Rule-In Strategies for Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 10 October 2016

Early dynamic change in high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T in the investigation of acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 22 July 2011

Effect of recalibration of the hs-TnT assay on diagnostic performance.

scientific article published in February 2014

Effectiveness of EDACS Versus ADAPT Accelerated Diagnostic Pathways for Chest Pain: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial Embedded Within Practice

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European Society of Cardiology - Acute Cardiovascular Care Association position paper on safe discharge of acute heart failure patients from the emergency department

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European Society of Cardiology-Acute Cardiovascular Care Association Position paper on acute heart failure: A call for interdisciplinary care

scientific article published on 29 June 2015

Evaluating Rapid Rule-out of Acute Myocardial Infarction by Use of a High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Assay at Presentation.

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Evaluation of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Levels in Patients With Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome

scientific article published on 01 July 2016

Examining renal impairment as a risk factor for acute coronary syndrome: a prospective observational study

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

Examining the signs and symptoms experienced by individuals with suspected acute coronary syndrome in the Asia-Pacific region: a prospective observational study.

scientific article published on 26 June 2012

Examining the translational success of an initiative to accelerate the assessment of chest pain for patients in an Australian emergency department: a pre-post study

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Expert consensus document: Echocardiography and lung ultrasonography for the assessment and management of acute heart failure

scientific article (publication date: 27 April 2017)

Expert consensus document: Reporting checklist for quantification of pulmonary congestion by lung ultrasound in heart failure

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

External validation of heart-type fatty acid binding protein, high-sensitivity cardiac troponin, and electrocardiography as rule-out for acute myocardial infarction

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External validation of the emergency department assessment of chest pain score accelerated diagnostic pathway (EDACS-ADP)

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

Facilitators and barriers for emergency department clinicians using a rapid chest pain assessment protocol: qualitative interview research

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Factors associated with triage assignment of emergency department patients ultimately diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction.

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Factors influencing choice of pre-hospital transportation of patients with potential acute coronary syndrome: An observational study.

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Factors influencing physician risk estimates for acute cardiac events in emergency patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

Future developments in chest pain diagnosis and management.

scientific article published on March 2010

Heart Fatty Acid Binding Protein and cardiac troponin: development of an optimal rule-out strategy for acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 31 August 2016

Heart failure in patients presenting with dyspnoea to the emergency department in the Asia Pacific region: an observational study

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

High-sensitivity cardiac troponin t concentrations below the limit of detection to exclude acute myocardial infarction: a prospective evaluation

scientific article published on 15 May 2015

Highly sensitive troponin assays--a two-edged sword?

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

ICare-ACS (Improving Care Processes for Patients With Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome): A Study of Cross-System Implementation of a National Clinical Pathway

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

Immediate Rule-Out of Acute Myocardial Infarction Using Electrocardiogram and Baseline High-Sensitivity Troponin I.

scientific article published on 30 November 2016

Implementation of a chest pain management service improves patient care and reduces length of stay

scientific article published on 01 March 2014

Implementing change: evaluating the Accelerated Chest pain Risk Evaluation (ACRE) project

scientific article published in August 2017

Improved Assessment of Chest pain Trial (IMPACT): assessing patients with possible acute coronary syndromes.

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Incidence, characteristics, determinants, and prognostic impact of recurrent syncope

scientific article published on 10 October 2020

Indications and practical approach to non-invasive ventilation in acute heart failure.

scientific article published on 26 November 2017

Introduction of an accelerated diagnostic protocol in the assessment of emergency department patients with possible acute coronary syndrome: the Nambour Short Low-Intermediate Chest pain project.

scientific article published on 21 July 2013

Letter by Egerton-Warburton et al Regarding Article, "Duration of Electrocardiographic Monitoring of Emergency Department Patients With Syncope"

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Limited utility of exercise stress testing in the evaluation of suspected acute coronary syndrome in patients aged less than 40 years with intermediate risk features.

scientific article published on April 2014

Machine Learning to Predict the Likelihood of Acute Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

Modification of the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction risk score for patients presenting with chest pain to the emergency department.

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

Myocardial infarction: rapid ruling out in the emergency room

scientific article published on 08 October 2015

National Heart Foundation of Australia & Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Australian Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes 2016

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Australian clinical guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes 2016.

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Nebulized lidocaine decreases the discomfort of nasogastric tube insertion: a randomized, double-blind trial

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Outcome at 30 days for low-risk chest pain patients assessed using an accelerated diagnostic pathway in the emergency department

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Panic Disorder in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Chest Pain: Prevalence and Presenting Symptoms.

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Performance of risk stratification for acute coronary syndrome with two-hour sensitive troponin assay results

scientific article published on 19 November 2013

Peripheral Intravenous Cannula Insertion and Use in the Emergency Department: An Intervention Study

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Point: The Use of Sex-Specific Cutpoints for High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Assays

scientific article published on 28 November 2016

Practical approach on frail older patients attended for acute heart failure

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Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism in Patients With Syncope

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Prohormones in the Early Diagnosis of Cardiac Syncope

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

Prospective validation of prognostic and diagnostic syncope scores in the emergency department

scientific article published on 21 June 2018

Rapid Rule-out of Acute Myocardial Infarction With a Single High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T Measurement Below the Limit of Detection: A Collaborative Meta-analysis

scientific article published on 18 April 2017

Rational clinical evaluation of suspected acute coronary syndromes: The value of more information.

scientific article published on 2 June 2017

Re: Medical student enquiries on the art of clinical inertia

scientific article published on 15 April 2018

Re: Review article: elevated troponin: diagnostic gold or fool's gold?

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Recognizing the Potential for Overdiagnosis: Are High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Assays an Example?

scientific article published on 05 February 2019

Relationship Between Physiological Parameters and Acute Coronary Syndrome in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Undifferentiated Chest Pain.

scientific article published on 5 February 2015

Response by Than et al to Letter Regarding Article, "Assessment of the European Society of Cardiology 0-Hour/1-Hour Algorithm to Rule-Out and Rule-In Acute Myocardial Infarction".

scientific article published in April 2017

Risk stratification scores for patients with acute heart failure in the Emergency Department: A systematic review

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Sex-specific versus overall cut points for a high sensitivity troponin I assay in predicting 1-year outcomes in emergency patients presenting with chest pain.

scientific article published on January 2016

Suspected ACS Patients Presenting With Myocardial Damage or a Type 2 Myocardial Infarction Have a Similar Late Mortality to Patients With a Type 1 Myocardial Infarction: A Report From the Australian and New Zealand 2012 SNAPSHOT ACS Study.

scientific article published on 31 December 2016

The Association of Electrocardiographic Abnormalities and Acute Coronary Syndrome in Emergency Patients With Chest Pain.

scientific article published on 31 October 2016

The Fast and the Furious: Low-Risk Chest Pain and the Rapid Rule-Out Protocol.

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The HEART score for the assessment of patients with chest pain in the emergency department: a multinational validation study

scientific article published in September 2013

The approach to patients with possible cardiac chest pain

scientific article published in July 2013

The assessment and management of chest pain in primary care: A focus on acute coronary syndrome

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

The evolution of chest pain pathways

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

The incremental value of stress testing in patients with acute chest pain beyond serial cardiac troponin testing

scientific article published on 28 October 2015

The new Vancouver Chest Pain Rule using troponin as the only biomarker: an external validation study.

scientific article published on 14 October 2013

The organisational value of diagnostic strategies using high-sensitivity troponin for patients with possible acute coronary syndromes: a trial-based cost-effectiveness analysis.

scientific article published on 09 June 2017

The predictive value of high sensitivity-troponin velocity within the first 6h of presentation for cardiac outcomes regardless of acute coronary syndrome diagnosis

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The promise of high-sensitivity troponin testing

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

The role of cardiac computed tomography in assessment of acute chest pain.

scientific article published on 18 May 2012

The utility of presentation and 4-hour high sensitivity troponin I to rule-out acute myocardial infarction in the emergency department

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

Time to presentation and 12-month health outcomes in patients presenting to the emergency department with symptoms of possible acute coronary syndrome

scientific article published on 18 January 2016

Towards a consistent definition of a significant delta troponin with z-scores: a way out of chaos?

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Troponin testing: end of an era?

scientific article published in November 2013

Troponin: A risk‐defining biomarker for emergency department physicians

scientific article published on 01 August 2011

Two-Hour Algorithm for Rapid Triage of Suspected Acute Myocardial Infarction Using a High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Assay

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Two-Hour Algorithm for Triage toward Rule-Out and Rule-In of Acute Myocardial Infarction by Use of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Two-hour algorithm for triage toward rule-out and rule-in of acute myocardial infarction using high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T.

scientific article published on 13 November 2014

Two-hour diagnostic algorithms for early assessment of patients with acute chest pain--Implications of lowering the cardiac troponin I cut-off to the 97.5th percentile

scientific article published on 11 March 2015

Undetectable hs-cTnT in the emergency department and risk of myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

Use of observed within-person variation of cardiac troponin in emergency department patients for determination of biological variation and percentage and absolute reference change values.

scientific article published on 4 March 2014

Use of the Theoretical Domains Framework to evaluate factors driving successful implementation of the Accelerated Chest pain Risk Evaluation (ACRE) project

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Using Sex-specific Cutoffs for High-sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T to Diagnose Acute Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Utility of Routine Exercise Stress Testing among Intermediate Risk Chest Pain Patients Attending an Emergency Department

scientific article published on 2 May 2015

Validating the Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (MACS) and Troponin-only Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (T-MACS) rules for the prediction of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Validation of NICE diagnostic guidance for rule out of myocardial infarction using high-sensitivity troponin tests

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Validation of an accelerated high-sensitivity troponin T assay protocol in an Australian cohort with chest pain.

scientific article published in February 2014

Validation of high-sensitivity troponin I in a 2-hour diagnostic strategy to assess 30-day outcomes in emergency department patients with possible acute coronary syndrome

scientific article published on 10 April 2013

Validation of presentation and 3 h high-sensitivity troponin to rule-in and rule-out acute myocardial infarction.

scientific article published on 8 March 2016

Validation of the Vancouver Chest Pain Rule using troponin as the only biomarker: a prospective cohort study

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Validity of a Novel Point-of-Care Troponin Assay for Single-Test Rule-Out of Acute Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 1 November 2018

What is an acceptable risk of major adverse cardiac event in chest pain patients soon after discharge from the Emergency Department?: a clinical survey

scientific article published on 22 October 2012

Widespread Introduction of a High-Sensitivity Troponin Assay: Assessing the Impact on Patients and Health Services

scientific article published on 16 June 2020