Clinical Trials

The purpose of this study is to incorporate the Chest Pain Choice decision aid in a stakeholder-guided evidence-based clinical practice pathway, to implement it in practice, and to evaluate its effects — potential to improve patients’ experience of care while simultaneously limiting unnecessary healthcare utilization and improving population health.

We are doing a study to assess the impact of including patients in making decision regarding their own medical care in the emergency department. We will randomly assign them to either receive a decision aid or usual care. In doing this, we aim to increase patient satisfaction and safely decrease medical cost.

The objectives of this study are to evaluate utilization of chest pain risk stratification tools in a community hospital emergency department, to evaluate the effect on utilization of inpatient and outpatient resources for chest pain patients when HEART pathway risk stratification is utilized, and to compare the differences in the above outcomes before and after change from 4th to 5th generation Troponin T assays (which occurs in July 2018), in the midst of our study period.

The purpose of this study is to perform an in-depth review of pre-operative considerations and indications for spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for refractory angina pectoris (RAP), intraoperative findings, and postoperative reports of any adverse events and (secondarily) patient reports of effectiveness with this therapy.

The purpose of this study is to see if using two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography improves the initial diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome in patients with chest pain who visit the emergency department. 

The purpose of this study is to validate the diagnostic accuracy of a transportable magnetocardiograph device for acute coronary syndrome (ACS), focusing on rule-out capability, in patients who present to the emergency department with chest pain symptoms consistent with ACS.

The purpose of this study is to screen for unique or characteristic circulating peptides, hormonal biomarkers and circulating mRNA in patients who have experienced spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD).

The purpose of this study is to collect data related to patients undergoing diagnostic evaluation and treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) and its associated diseases in multiple academic and community settings.

This study (SE2030) will establish a platform of data to build the perfect stress echo test, suitable for all patients, anywhere, anytime, also quantitative and operator independent.