The American journal of medicine
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
Impact of physician experience on triage of emergency room patients with acute chest pain at three teaching hospitals.
To determine whether the experience of the physician (as measured by postgraduate training level or time during the academic year) who performs the initial evaluation affects the triage of patients with acute chest pain. ⋯ As the experience of the physician who performed the initial evaluation increased, there was a lower threshold for admitting all patients with and without AMI, AIHD, or major complications to the CCU and hospital without a detectable improvement in diagnostic accuracy.