Table 2.
Diagnostic impression after initial hospital attendance
Diagnosis | CPU care | Routine care |
Non-specific chest pain | 144 (30.1%) | 125 (25.4%) |
Anxiety | 13 (2.7%) | 21 (4.3%) |
Angina | 63 (13.2%) | 123 (24.9%) |
Myocardial infarction | 28 (5.8%) | 27 (5.5%) |
Gastro-oesophageal pain | 74 (15.4%) | 60 (12.2%) |
Musculo-skeletal pain | 122 (25.5%) | 106 (21.5%) |
Other diagnosis | 26 (5.4%) | 18 (3.7%) |
Not recorded | 9 (1.9%) | 13 (2.6%) |
P < 0.0001 for the difference in distribution across the categories