Emergency Physicians see patients commonly see patients with chest pain on every shift. Among other considerations, they have to determine the patient’s risk of having a bad outcome before they’re able to receive further care. This risk stratification has historically depended on clinical gestalt. Over the past decade or so, multiple clinical scores have been developed to help physicians make this decision. The question, though, is how well do they work. Are they better than clinical gestalt alone? How should they be interpreted in light of the ECG and troponin?

In this episode of the JACEP Open podcast, Dr. Jeff Jarvis discusses two recent papers from the Journal that help answer these questions.

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