Risk Score Alerts for Chest Pain Care

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Chest Pain, Acute Myocardial Infarction

In brief

The evaluation of chest pain in the primary care office is a challenging problem, with many patients suffering from missed diagnoses of acute myocardial infarction and many other low risk patients receiving unnecessary evaluations. This project will provide primary care physicians evaluating patients complaining of chest pain with computerized alerts that differentiate high-risk patients from low risk patients, and provide individualized evaluation and treatment recommendations.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00674375

Run by

Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates

People needed

8000

Starts

2008-11-01

Expected to finish

2010-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-03-18

Who can join

Age: 30 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adults 30 years and older presenting to one of 14 ambulatory health centers and their evaluating primary care clinician will be eligible for this study.

You may not qualify if…

• Prior history of coronary heart disease
• Age <30 years
• Presentation for an annual physical examination
• Prior hospital admission or emergency department visit for evaluation of chest pain within 30 days of their presentation to primary care clinician

Where it is running

• Brigham and Women's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates — Newton, Massachusetts, United States

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