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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Emerg Med. 2019 Apr 5;74(2):216–223. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2019.01.027

Table 3.

30-day major adverse cardiac outcomes stratified by timing of noninvasive cardiac stress test completion after an Emergency Department visit for suspected acute coronary syndrome.

Noninvasive Test Completion Timeframe
 Total (N=7988)
Within 3 days N=2497) 4 to 30 days (N=4695) None within 30 days (N=796)
Death, N 0 0 0 0
AMI, N (%) 19 (0.8) 30 (0.6) 5 (0.6) 54 (0.7)
PCI, N (%) 2 (0.1) 2 (<0.1) 0 4 (0.1)
CABG, N (%) 6 (0.2) 7 (0.1) 0 13 (0.2)
Unstable Angina, N (%) 18 (0.7) 24 (0.5) 1 (0.1) 43 (0.5)
MACE, N (%) 27 (1.1) 39 (0.8) 5 (0.6) 71 (0.9)

Abbreviations: AMI = acute myocardial infarction. CABG = coronary artery bypass grafting. PCI = percutaneous coronary intervention. MACE = major adverse cardiac events (includes death, AMI, PCI, and CABG).