CRUSADE - A Roadmap for Change: Interim Analysis of the 100,000 Patients Enrollment Milestone

It is with great pleasure that we present this EMCREGInternational newsletter report describing the first 100,000 patients enrolled into the CRUSADE quality improvement initiative, particularly from the perspective of the emergency physician. This unique clinical program, coordinated by the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) in Durham, North Carolina represents a remarkable collaboration between Emergency Medicine and Cardiology in over 400 acute care hospitals across the United States.

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[3]  L. Newby,et al.  884-3 Clinical implications of discordant creatine kinase-MB and troponin results in patients with acute coronary syndromes , 2004 .

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[9]  W. Gibler,et al.  1097-93 Paradoxical utilization of invasive cardiac procedures for patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: An American-Canadian comparison from the CRUSADE initiative and Canadian registries , 2004 .