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01-10-2017 | Editorial

The United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline on chest pain of recent onset: A United States perspective

Authors: James E. Udelson, MD, Udo Hoffmann, MD, MPH

Published in: Journal of Nuclear Cardiology | Issue 5/2017

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The United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recently released their “Guideline on Chest Pain of Recent Onset”.1 The highly comprehensive document provides recommendations for evaluation of patients presenting with new onset acute chest pain to clinicians or Emergency Departments, and also recommendations for evaluation of those with more stable symptoms presenting to clinicians as out-patients. This commentary will only address the latter group of patients and associated recommendations. The NICE document does not address patients with known CAD (prior MI or revascularization). …

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Title: The United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline on chest pain of recent onset: A United States perspective
Authors: James E. Udelson, MD
Udo Hoffmann, MD, MPH
Publication date: 01-10-2017
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Cardiology / Issue 5/2017
Print ISSN: 1071-3581
Electronic ISSN: 1532-6551
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-017-1025-6

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