Background: Chest pain and related symptoms are the number two reason patients visit emergency departments in the United States, often leading to routine hospitalization or observation. Improving utilization management of patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain is an important goal for hospitals. Use of 5th generation troponins and risk stratifying tools can [...]

Background: Chest pain is a common chief complaint among adult patients presenting to emergency departments. An assessment of chest pain management at the institution noted significant variability in provider treatment patterns for chest pain. While a NSTE-ACS protocol existed, there was varied use and inconsistent adoption. Review of pre-intervention data demonstrated that some emergency medicine [...]