An Online Tool for Nurse Triage to Evaluate Risk for Acute Coronary Syndrome at Emergency Department

Table 1

Features of patients presenting with chest pain at the emergency department categorized by having acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

Factors	No ACS; = 147	ACS; = 28	value
Male gender	90 (61.22)	15 (53.57)	0.529
Median age (range), years	64 (12–93)	68 (44–88)	0.023
Age gender risk	116 (78.91)	27 (96.43)	0.031
Having diabetes mellitus	31 (21.09)	15 (53.57)	0.001
Previous CAD	60 (40.82)	22 (78.59)	<0.001
Having angina pain	28 (19.05)	21 (75.00)	<0.001

Note. Data presented as number (percentage) unless indicated otherwise; age gender risk indicated being male more than 45 years of age or female more than 55 years of age; CAD: coronary artery disease; angina pain indicated having at least one feature of typical angina pain including chest tightness; squeeze pain at retrosternum, referred to shoulder, arm, or mandible; dyspnea or tachypnea, associated with sweating or palpitation without other obvious causes, syncope or fainting, or improved with sublingual nitroglycerin.