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The Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction by Computer-Derived Protocol in a Municipal Hospital

Leonid Poretsky

Department of Medicine, Coney Island Hospital

Ian H. Leibowitz

Department of Medicine, Coney Island Hospital

Sandor A. Friedman

Department of Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center

The evaluation of an emergency room patient with acute chest pain is often difficult. Recently, computers have been employed to develop protocols for identifying which patients are likely to have acute myocardial infarctions and to benefit, therefore, from admission to a relatively scarce coronary care unit bed. We have tested the latest computer-derived instrument in a municipal hospital and found it to be less reliable than the clinical judgement of physicians.

Angiology, Vol. 36, No. 3, 165-170 (1985)
DOI: 10.1177/000331978503600305
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