Abstract

The HEART score is an important and widely used clinical decision tool that provides emergency physicians with objective risk stratification for patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with undifferentiated chest pain. Very little information exists as to which patients undergo formal risk stratification with a HEART score, and whether patient demographics influence physicians’ decisions to apply the HEART score in cases of undifferentiated chest pain. Our objective was to determine if sex or race correlates to documentation of patients’ HEART scores when controlling for age.

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