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Chest pain

Causes
Clinical features
Investigations
Therapy
Prognosis
Prognosis

Many patients die in the next few years a

Why?

  • One in five patients with acute chest pain are dead within 2.5 years (20%: 95% CI: 16% to 23%) a

 

Expiry date: June 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   S   Straus
CAT Writers   CJ   Wotton , CM   Ball , N   Shenker , RS   Phillips