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Jim Christenson, Grant Innes, Douglas McKnight, Barb Boychuk, Eric Grafstein, Christopher R. Thompson, Frances Rosenberg, Aslam H. Anis, Ken Gin, Jessica Tilley, Hubert Wong and Joel Singer

From the Departments of Medicine (Thompson, Gin), Surgery (Christenson, Innes, McKnight, Grafstein), Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Rosenberg), and Health Care and Epidemiology (Anis, Wong, Singer), University of British Columbia, the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (Christenson, Innes, Grafstein, Anis, Tilley), the Departments of Emergency Medicine (Christenson, Innes, Boychuk, Grafstein), Medicine (Thompson), and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Rosenberg), Providence Health Care, St. Paul's Hospital, and the Departments of Emergency Medicine (McKnight) and Medicine (Gin), Vancouver Hospital, Vancouver, BC



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  		Fig. 1: Disposition and 30-day outcomes of consecutive consenting patients aged 25 years or older presenting with chest discomfort to 2 urban tertiary care emergency departments. ACS = acute coronary syndrome, AMA = against medical advice.

 

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