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The objective CORE score allows early rule out in acute chest pain patients

Borna, Catharina LU ; Kollberg, Knut ; Larsson, David LU ; Mokhtari, Arash LU and Ekelund, Ulf LU orcid (2018) In Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal 52(6). p.308-314
Abstract

Objectives. Chest pain is a common complaint in the emergency department (ED), and it is a challenge to identify low-risk chest pain patients eligible for early discharge. We aimed to develop a simple objective decision rule to exclude 30-day major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in ED chest pain patients. Design. We analyzed prospectively included patients presenting with chest pain. Low risk patients were identified with the clinical objective rule-out evaluation (CORE). CORE was based on high sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) tests at ED presentation (0 h) and 2 h later together with a simplified risk score consisting of four objective variables: age ≥65 years and a history of arterial disease, hypertension or diabetes. For the... (More)

Objectives. Chest pain is a common complaint in the emergency department (ED), and it is a challenge to identify low-risk chest pain patients eligible for early discharge. We aimed to develop a simple objective decision rule to exclude 30-day major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in ED chest pain patients. Design. We analyzed prospectively included patients presenting with chest pain. Low risk patients were identified with the clinical objective rule-out evaluation (CORE). CORE was based on high sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) tests at ED presentation (0 h) and 2 h later together with a simplified risk score consisting of four objective variables: age ≥65 years and a history of arterial disease, hypertension or diabetes. For the patient to be classified as low risk in the CORE rule, hs-cTnT had to be ≤14 ng/L both at 0 and 2 h, and the sum of the risk score had to be 0. The primary outcome was MACE within 30 days. Results. Among the 751 patients in the final analysis, 90 (11.9%) had a MACE. CORE identified 248 (33%) of patients as low risk with a sensitivity of 98.9% (CI 93.1–99.9) and a negative predictive value of 99.6% (95% CI 97.4–100) for 30-day MACE. Adding the ED physician’s interpretation of the ECG to CORE did not improve diagnostic performance. Conclusion. A simple objective decision rule (CORE) identified one-third of all patients as having a very low 30-day risk of MACE. These patients may potentially be discharged without additional investigations for acute coronary syndrome.

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acute coronary syndrome, chest pain, early rule out, high sensitivity troponin T, major cardiac event
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Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal
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52
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6
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308 - 314
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Taylor & Francis
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1401-7431
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10.1080/14017431.2018.1546891
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