Annals of emergency medicine
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Multicenter Study
Missed diagnoses of acute myocardial infarction in the emergency department: results from a multicenter study.
To determine the rate of missed acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the emergency department and the factors related to missed diagnoses. ⋯ The rate of missed AMI in the ED was only 1.9%. However, 25% of these might have been prevented had ST-elevation not been missed, and another 25% might have been prevented had patients who were recognized to have ischemic heart disease by the physician in the ED been admitted.