By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - Poor communication may lead some patients with chest pain to be admitted to the hospital even when their risk for a heart attack is low, a small study suggests. "Ideally, you want the conversation between a physician and a patient to be as straightforward as possible, but in our study of admissions for cardiac observation, we found the risks of going home were terribly overinflated and so was the potential benefit of staying overnight in the hospital," said lead study author Dr. David Newman. Newman, a researcher in emergency medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and his colleagues surveyed 425 pairs of doctors and patients shortly after the patients were admitted to the hospital for acute coronary syndrome, an umbrella term for situations such as a heart attack or unstable angina where blood flow to the heart is suddenly blocked. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..
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