Chest pain observation units.
Nurs Manage
; 27(5): 49, 53-4, 1996 May.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-8710349
ABSTRACT
The key to technologic assessment of the chest pain unit lies in the recognition of the unit's ability to optimize outcomes of an illness with high incidence, high acute mortality and significant chronic morbidity. The chest pain observation unit, as an adjunct to the emergency department (ED), offers health managers and administrators the clinical tool, first envisioned by Dr. Lown in the 1960s, to achieve improved quality and cost-effectiveness of acute chest pain management as health care moves into a new century.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Chest Pain
/
Coronary Care Units
/
Emergency Service, Hospital
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Nurs Manage
Year:
1996
Document type:
Article