CHICAGO — As many as 10% of clinicians will send their patients with chest pain directly to the cath lab, but a new study showed that this usual-care strategy is less effective in reducing bad outcomes and wastes resources compared with a precision strategy.
Overall, patients following precision medicine protocols had a 71% reduced risk of experiencing a composite primary endpoint of death, myocardial infarction, or catheterization with or without obstructive coronary artery disease versus patients whose doctors used best judgment in ordering care (adjusted HR 0.29, 95% CI 0.20-0.41, P