Search Results - "McLachlan, D. Ian"
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Prospective Validation and Comparative Analysis of Coronary Risk Stratification Strategies Among Emergency Department Patients With Chest Pain
Published in Journal of the American Heart Association (06-04-2021)“…Background Coronary risk stratification is recommended for emergency department patients with chest pain. Many protocols are designed as "rule-out" binary…”
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Graded Coronary Risk Stratification for Emergency Department Patients With Chest Pain: A Controlled Cohort Study
Published in Journal of the American Heart Association (16-11-2021)“…Background Resource utilization among emergency department (ED) patients with possible coronary chest pain is highly variable. Methods and Results Controlled…”
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Clinical characteristics of COVID‐19 patients evaluated in the emergency department: A retrospective cohort study of 801 cases
Published in Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open (01-08-2021)“…Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), has extracted devastating…”
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Increasing Safe Outpatient Management of Emergency Department Patients With Pulmonary Embolism: A Controlled Pragmatic Trial
Published in Annals of internal medicine (18-12-2018)“…Many low-risk patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) in the emergency department (ED) are eligible for outpatient care but are hospitalized nonetheless…”
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Outpatient Management of Emergency Department Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Variation, Patient Characteristics, and Outcomes
Published in Annals of emergency medicine (01-07-2018)“…Outpatient management of emergency department (ED) patients with acute pulmonary embolism is uncommon. We seek to evaluate the facility-level variation of…”
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Diagnostic Performance of Emergency Physician Gestalt for Predicting Acute Appendicitis in Patients Age 5 to 20 Years
Published in Academic emergency medicine (01-09-2020)“…Objectives Pediatric appendicitis remains a challenging diagnosis in the emergency department (ED). Available risk prediction algorithms may contribute to…”
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Validation of the Pediatric Appendicitis Risk Calculator (pARC) in a Community Emergency Department Setting
Published in Annals of emergency medicine (01-10-2019)“…The pediatric Appendicitis Risk Calculator (pARC) is a validated clinical tool for assessing a child’s probability of appendicitis. Our objective was to assess…”
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Risk stratifying emergency department patients with acute pulmonary embolism: Does the simplified Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index perform as well as the original?
Published in Thrombosis research (01-12-2016)“…Abstract Introduction The Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI) is a validated prognostic score to estimate the 30-day mortality of emergency department…”
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Automated Retrospective Calculation of the EDACS and HEART Scores in a Multicenter Prospective Cohort of Emergency Department Chest Pain Patients
Published in Academic emergency medicine (01-10-2020)“…Objectives Coronary risk scores are commonly applied to emergency department patients with undifferentiated chest pain. Two prominent risk score–based…”
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A.I.M.S. in the Classroom
Published in The Mathematics teacher (01-05-1994)“…Discusses a course which combines Assessment, Investigation, and Mathematical Skills (A.I.M.S.) to originate, arouse, and sustain student interest in…”
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