How Did the Acute Ischemic Heart Disease Predictiue Instrument Reduce Unnecessary Coronary Care Unit Admissions?

Robert A. McNutt and Harry P. Selker

Medical Decision Making, 1988, vol. 8, issue 2, 90-94

Abstract: The use of the acute ischemic heart disease predictive instrument reduced coronary care unit (CCU) admissions for patients without acute ischemic heart disease by 30%. One hypothesis holds that it reinforced physicians' correctly low estimates of the probability of acute ischemia, supporting a decision against CCU admission, another that it lowered phy sicians' over-high probability estimates for acute ischemia so that CCU admission was felt to be unnecessary. The authors asked 86 physicians to estimate the probability of acute ischemia for each of three study cases and to decide on CCU admission. For the low- probability case, the mean of physicians' probability estimates for acute ischemia was 46%, vs. the predictive instrument's calculated probability of 19% (p

Date: 1988
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