When Can We Defer Testing for Patients With Stable Chest Pain?

Ron Blankstein, Sanjay Divakaran, Leslee Shaw

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Article in JACC. Cardiovascular imaging, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Physician judgement in predicting obstructive coronary artery disease and adverse events in chest pain patients.Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2022
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Comparison of International Guidelines for Assessment of Suspected Stable Angina: Insights From the PROMISE and SCOT-HEART.2018

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ron BlanksteinCardiovascular Imaging Program, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Department of Radiology, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: rblankstein@bwh.harvard.edu.

Sanjay DivakaranCardiovascular Imaging Program, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Department of Radiology, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Leslee ShawDepartment of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.

Funding

Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging Research Training ProgramT32HL094301 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Marcelo F DI CARLI · 2010 to 2026

$7.8M

NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL094301

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Angina, StableChest PainCoronary AngiographyHumansclinical guidelinescoronary artery diseasecoronary computed tomography angiographystable angina

Identifiers

PMID30190031

DOI10.1016/j.jcmg.2018.07.017

PMCPMC6371966

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