Annals of emergency medicine
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Multicenter Study
Do emergency department patients with possible acute coronary syndrome have better outcomes when admitted to cardiology versus other services?
Emergency physicians need to consider potential differences in quality of care across admitting services in their triage decisions. For emergency department (ED) patients with possible acute coronary syndrome who require hospitalization, there are relatively few data to guide emergency physicians in deciding whether admission to a cardiology service bed yields better outcomes than admission to a noncardiology service. ⋯ ED patients admitted for evaluation of possible acute coronary syndrome do not experience worsened short-term outcomes if admitted to a noncardiology service bed.