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1963 • 3,764 citations

Primer on Certain Elements of Medical Decision Making

1975 • 1,168 citations

If nothing goes wrong, is everything all right? Interpreting zero numerators

1983 • 1,101 citations

If Nothing Goes Wrong, Is Everything All Right?

1983 • 951 citations

A Computer Protocol to Predict Myocardial Infarction in Emergency Department Patients with Chest Pain

1988 • 657 citations

A Predictive Instrument to Improve Coronary-Care-Unit Admission Practices in Acute Ischemic Heart Disease

1984 • 608 citations

The Coronary-Care Unit

1968 • 470 citations

Predictors of total mortality and sudden death in mild to moderate heart failure

1989 • 405 citations

Prognosis in severe heart failure: Relation to hemodynamic measurements and ventricular ectopic activity

1983 • 395 citations

Sudden unexpected death in patients with congestive heart failure: a second frontier.

1985 • 384 citations

Use of the Initial Electrocardiogram to Predict In-Hospital Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction

1985 • 360 citations

Trends in hospitalization rates for heart failure in the United States, 1973-1986. Evidence for increasing population prevalence

1990 • 290 citations

Ruling out Acute Myocardial Infarction

1991 • 265 citations

Rationing Intensive Care — Physician Responses to a Resource Shortage

1983 • 237 citations

Antiarrhythmic Drugs: a Possible Cause of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

1983 • 227 citations

Sensitivity of Routine Clinical Criteria for Diagnosing Myocardial Infarction Within 24 Hours of Hospitalization

1987 • 219 citations

Trends in Hospitalization Rates for Heart Failure in the United States, 1973-1986

1990 • 216 citations

Ventricular arrhythmias in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.

1984 • 192 citations

The Criteria and Standards of Quality

1983 • 191 citations

An Intensive Coronary Care Area

1963 • 183 citations

Development of arrhythmias in the patient with congestive heart failure: Pathophysiology, prevalence and prognosis

1986 • 180 citations

Mortality in heart failure: clinical variables of prognostic value.

1987 • 177 citations

A Tool for Judging Coronary Care Unit Admission Appropriateness, Valid for Both Real-Time and Retrospective Use

1991 • 172 citations

Incidence and characteristics of preventable iatrogenic cardiac arrests

1991 • 155 citations

Why patients with congestive heart failure die: arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.

1987 • 149 citations

The Course of Patients with Suspected Myocardial Infarction

1980 • 124 citations

Incidence and Characteristics of Preventable latrogenic Cardiac Arrests

1991 • 100 citations

Length of Stay in the Intensive Care Unit

1990 • 89 citations

The Initial Electrocardiogram During Admission for Myocardial Infarction

1987 • 87 citations

Prognostic Factors in Acute Pulmonary Edema

1986 • 85 citations

Improved Criteria for Admission to Cardiac Care Units

1981 • 82 citations

Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Edema: Conventional or Intensive Care?

1972 • 80 citations

How Do Physicians Adapt When the Coronary Care Unit Is Full?

1987 • 78 citations

Recommended guidelines for in-hospital cardiac monitoring of adults for detection of arrhythmia

1991 • 73 citations

Why patients with heart failure die: hemodynamic and functional determinants of survival.

1987 • 72 citations

Selecting the best triage rule for patients hospitalized with chest pain

1989 • 72 citations

A proposed solution to the present organ donation crisis based on a hard look at the past.

1987 • 57 citations

Early "Step-Down" Transfer of Low-Risk Patients with Chest Pain

1990 • 54 citations

Predicting the need for hospitalization of ambulatory patients with pneumonia

1991 • 46 citations

Is coronary-care-unit admission restricted for elderly patients? A multicenter study.

1991 • 39 citations

Acute Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema in the Elderly

1982 • 37 citations

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1988 • 37 citations

Prediction Rules for Patients With Suspected Myocardial Infarction

1987 • 34 citations

Discharge from a coronary care unit: Psychological factors

1989 • 34 citations

The coronary care unit

1968 • 32 citations

The triage decision in pulmonary edema

1988 • 31 citations

Intensive Heart Care

1968 • 19 citations

Prediction rules for patients with suspected myocardial infarction

1988 • 15 citations

Dissemination and Testing of Clinical Practice Guidelines Move to Top of Meeting Agendas for ahcpr and Society for Medical Decision Making

1991 • 14 citations

New-onset atrial fibrillation

1986 • 8 citations

Adverse reactions to medication on a coronary care unit

1979 • 8 citations

Hospital costs, resource characteristics, and the dynamics of death for patients with a primary diagnosis of congestive heart failure.

1989 • 5 citations

Length of Stay in the Intensive Care Unit

1991 • 3 citations