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Table 2.

Randomized controlled trials of CCTA improving outcomes in acute chest pain³⁵^,³⁶^,⁶⁶^,⁶⁷.

	ACRIN-PA	BEACON	CATCH	CT-COMPARE	CT-STAT	Nabi et al.	PERFECT	PROSPECT	ROMICAT-II
Number of patients	1368	490	576	562	699	598	395	400	1000
CCTA vs	Stress ECG, stress imaging	Stress ECG, MPI	Stress ECG, MPI	Stress ECG	MPI	MPI	Stress echo., MPI	MPI	Stress ECG, Stress echo., MPI
Age (mean years)	50	54	56	52	50	53	60	57	54
Female (%)	54	47	45	42	54	56	54	63	47
Follow-up (months)	12	1	19	12	6	7	12	12	1

ACRIN-PA, CT Angiography for Safe Discharge of Patients with Possible Acute Coronary Syndromes; BEACON, Better Evaluation of Acute Chest Pain with Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography; CATCH, CArdiac cT in the treatment of acute CHest pain; CT-COMPARE, CT Coronary Angiography Compared to Exercise ECG; CT-STAT, Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography for Systematic Triage of Acute Chest Pain Patients to Treatment; PERFECT, Prospective First Evaluation in Chest Pain; PROSPECT, Prospective Randomized Outcome trial comparing radionuclide Stress myocardial Perfusion imaging and ECG-gated coronary CT angiography; ROMICAT-II, Rule Out MI/ischaemia Using Computer Assisted Tomography; ECG, electrocardiogram; MPI, myocardial perfusion imaging; echo., echocardiography.