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Derek P. Chew
Researcher at Flinders University
Publications - 393
Citations - 21169
Derek P. Chew is an academic researcher from Flinders University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Myocardial infarction & Acute coronary syndrome. The author has an hindex of 60, co-authored 342 publications receiving 18879 citations. Previous affiliations of Derek P. Chew include Flinders Medical Centre & Auckland City Hospital.
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Outcomes from the REACH Registry for Australian general practice patients with or at high risk of atherothrombosis.
Christopher M. Reid,Zanfina Ademi,Zanfina Ademi,Mark Nelson,Greg Connor,Derek P. Chew,Louise Shiel,Ana Smeath,Fred de Looze,Ph. Gabriel Steg,Deepak L. Bhatt,Danny Liew +11 more
TL;DR: Patients with established cardiovascular disease or with multiple cardiovascular risk factors are studied to report on 1‐year cardiovascular event rates in patients withestablished cardiovascular disease and with multipleiovascular risk factors.
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Cost-effectiveness of drug-eluting stents: if only all things were equal.
TL;DR: They reduce rates of restenosis but not mortality or infarction--so are they worth it?
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Variation in Clinical Practice: A Priority Setting Approach to the Staged Funding of Quality Improvement
TL;DR: An analysis of linked, routinely collected data is presented to identify variation in patient outcomes and processes of care across hospitals for patients presenting with low-risk chest pain to provide a low cost, broadly applicable approach to identifying potentially important areas of variation in clinical practice.
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Type-II myocardial infarction and chronic myocardial injury rates, invasive management, and 4-year mortality among consecutive patients undergoing high-sensitivity troponin T testing in the emergency department
A. Etaher,A. Etaher,O. Gibbs,O. Gibbs,Y. Saad,Y. Saad,Steven A. Frost,Steven A. Frost,Tuan L. Nguyen,Tuan L. Nguyen,Ian T. Ferguson,Ian T. Ferguson,Craig P. Juergens,Craig P. Juergens,Derek P. Chew,John K. French,John K. French +16 more
TL;DR: Among unselected patients undergoing HsTnT testing in EDs, Type-II MI including acute myocardial injury was more common than Type-I MI, and after multivariable analyses mortality rates were marginally different.
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Availability of highly sensitive troponin assays and acute coronary syndrome care: Insights from the SNAPSHOT registry
Louise Cullen,John K. French,Tom Briffa,Julie Redfern,Christopher J. Hammett,David Brieger,William A. Parsonage,Jeffrey Lefkovits,Chris Ellis,Carolyn Astley,Tegwen Howell,John Elliott,Derek P. Chew +12 more
TL;DR: To examine differences in care and inhospital course of patients with possible acute coronary syndrome in Australia and New Zealand based on whether a highly sensitive troponin assay was used at the hospital to which they presented.