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The Financial Impact of Acute Coronary Syndromes

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Short Stay Management of Chest Pain

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For decades, mitigating the financial impact of patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain has been a vexing task for the healthcare system. Chest pain is the second most common presenting complaint in the ED, comprising up to 5% of the 139 million annual visits in 2017 [1]. A plethora of diagnoses ranging from benign to life threatening, such as musculoskeletal pain, gastroesophageal reflux disease, pneumonia, pneumothorax, myocardial ischemia, aortic dissection, and many others all share the common symptom of chest pain. Assessing for, confirming, or adequately excluding a diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) from this wide variety of possibilities while also avoiding unnecessary testing or hospitalization has been a ubiquitous challenge faced by many emergency physicians.

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Baymon, D., Baugh, C. (2022). The Financial Impact of Acute Coronary Syndromes. In: Pena, M., Osborne, A., Peacock, W.F. (eds) Short Stay Management of Chest Pain. Contemporary Cardiology. Humana, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05520-1_2

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