TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinical assessment of patients with chest pain; a systematic review of predictive tools
AU - Ayerbe, Luis
AU - Gonzalez, Esteban
AU - Gallo, Valentina
AU - Coleman, Claire L.
AU - Wragg, Andrew
AU - Robson, John
PY - 2016/1/20
Y1 - 2016/1/20
N2 - Background: The clinical assessment of patients with chest pain of recent onset remains difficult. This study presents a critical review of clinical predictive tools for the assessment of patients with chest pain.Methods: Systematic review of observational studies and estimation of probabilities of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with chest pain. Searches were conducted in PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science to identify studies reporting tools, with at least three variables from clinical history, physical examination or ECG, produced with multivariate analysis, to estimate probabilities of CAD in patients with chest pain of recent onset, published from inception of the database to the 31st July 2015. The references of previous relevant reviews were hand searched. The methodological quality was assessed with standard criteria. Since the incidence of CAD has changed in the past few decades, the date of publication was acknowledged to be relevant in order to use the tool in clinical practice, and more recent papers were considered more relevant. Probabilities of CAD according to the studies of highest quality were estimated and the evidence provided was graded.Results: Twelve papers were included out of the 19126 references initially identified. The methodological quality of all of them was high. The clinical characteristics of the chest pain, age, past medical history of cardiovascular disease, gender, and abnormalities in the ECG were the predictors of CAD most commonly reported across the studies. The most recent papers, with highest methodological quality, and most practical for use in clinical settings, reported prediction or exclusion of CAD with area under the curve 0.90 in Primary Care, 0.91 in Emergency department, and 0.79 in Cardiology. These papers provide evidence of high level (1B) and the recommendation to use their results in the management of patients with chest pain is strong (A).Conclusions: The risk of CAD can be estimated on clinical grounds in patients with chest pain in different clinical settings with high accuracy. The estimation of probabilities of CAD presented in these studies could be used for a better management of patients with chest pain and also in the development of future predictive tools.
AB - Background: The clinical assessment of patients with chest pain of recent onset remains difficult. This study presents a critical review of clinical predictive tools for the assessment of patients with chest pain.Methods: Systematic review of observational studies and estimation of probabilities of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with chest pain. Searches were conducted in PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science to identify studies reporting tools, with at least three variables from clinical history, physical examination or ECG, produced with multivariate analysis, to estimate probabilities of CAD in patients with chest pain of recent onset, published from inception of the database to the 31st July 2015. The references of previous relevant reviews were hand searched. The methodological quality was assessed with standard criteria. Since the incidence of CAD has changed in the past few decades, the date of publication was acknowledged to be relevant in order to use the tool in clinical practice, and more recent papers were considered more relevant. Probabilities of CAD according to the studies of highest quality were estimated and the evidence provided was graded.Results: Twelve papers were included out of the 19126 references initially identified. The methodological quality of all of them was high. The clinical characteristics of the chest pain, age, past medical history of cardiovascular disease, gender, and abnormalities in the ECG were the predictors of CAD most commonly reported across the studies. The most recent papers, with highest methodological quality, and most practical for use in clinical settings, reported prediction or exclusion of CAD with area under the curve 0.90 in Primary Care, 0.91 in Emergency department, and 0.79 in Cardiology. These papers provide evidence of high level (1B) and the recommendation to use their results in the management of patients with chest pain is strong (A).Conclusions: The risk of CAD can be estimated on clinical grounds in patients with chest pain in different clinical settings with high accuracy. The estimation of probabilities of CAD presented in these studies could be used for a better management of patients with chest pain and also in the development of future predictive tools.
KW - Chest pain
KW - Myocardial ischaemia
KW - Risk assessment
KW - Primary health care
KW - Cardiology
KW - Emergency medicine
KW - CORONARY-ARTERY-DISEASE
KW - PRIMARY-CARE
KW - MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION
KW - HEART-DISEASE
KW - CARDIOVASCULAR RISK
KW - DIAGNOSTIC-ACCURACY
KW - DECISION-SUPPORT
KW - METAANALYSIS
KW - VALIDATION
KW - MANAGEMENT
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/12548269-0786-385b-bf35-61c2b7fa9562/
U2 - 10.1186/s12872-016-0196-4
DO - 10.1186/s12872-016-0196-4
M3 - Review article
SN - 1471-2261
VL - 16
SP - 18
JO - BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
JF - BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
IS - 1
M1 - 18
ER -