Non-cardiac chest pain: prognosis and secondary healthcare utilisation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Presentations of non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP) to the emergency department (ED) are increasing. More knowledge of prognosis and healthcare utilisation of patients with NCCP is necessary to optimise their management.

Methods

This study is a prospective, observational, prevalence-based cohort study conducted from September 2015 to February 2016 with 1-year follow-up including all patients 18 years and older referred to the ED with chest pain. Discharge diagnoses, mortality, major adverse cardiac events (MACE), re-presentations to the ED, hospitalisations, cardiac interventions and outpatient monitoring were assessed.

Results

More than 60% of the 1239 patients presenting with chest pain were discharged with NCCP. The all-cause 1-year mortality rate of patients

SUBMITTER: Mol KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6196943 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature