Acknowledgment: The authors thank Dr. Joanne Deely of JMD Writing Consultants for helping to write and edit the manuscript and the Emergency Care Foundation for helping to fund the manuscript development.
Financial Support: Dr. Pickering was supported by a Senior Research Fellowship from the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation, the Emergency Care Foundation, and the Canterbury District Health Board. Dr. Than was supported by a Clinical Practitioners Research Fellowship from the Health Research Council of New Zealand. Dr. Cullen was supported by a Research Fellowship from the Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation. No commercial organization funded or was involved in this study. Roche Diagnostics provided funding for some of the cohorts included in this meta-analysis (see
Table 4 of
Supplement 2).
Disclosures: Dr. Pickering reports grants from the Emergency Care Foundation, Canterbury Medical Research Foundation, and Canterbury District Health Board and nonfinancial support from Roche Diagnostics during the conduct of the study. Dr. Than reports grants and other support from Abbott, Beckman Coulter, and Roche outside the submitted work. Dr. Cullen reports grants from Roche, Abbott Diagnostics, Siemens, Beckman Coulter, and Radiometer Pacific during the conduct of the study and personal fees from Abbott Diagnostics, Siemens, AstraZeneca, and Novartis outside the submitted work. Dr. Body reports a consultancy for Creavo Medical Technologies; grants from Roche Diagnostics, Abbott Point of Care, Novartis, Portola Pharmaceuticals, Boehringer Ingelheim, Shire, and FABPulous; a patent for the Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes decision rule; and travel/accommodations/meeting expenses from Roche Diagnostics and Randox Laboratories outside the submitted work. Dr. Carlton reports a grant from Abbott Diagnostics during the conduct of the study and a grant from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine outside the submitted work. Dr. Collinson reports a grant from the U.K. Health Technology Assessment Programme before the conduct of the study. Dr. Eggers reports personal fees from Abbott Laboratories, AstraZeneca, and Fiomi Diagnostics and nonfinancial support from Abbott Laboratories outside the submitted work. Dr. Goodacre reports a grant from the U.K. National Institute for Health Research during the conduct of the study. Dr. Greenslade reports a grant from the Emergency Medicine Foundation during the conduct of the study. Dr. Jaffe reports personal fees from Roche, Abbott, Siemens, Alere, Beckman Coulter, Sphingotec, NeuroGenomeX, IL, Singulex, ET Healthcare, and Novartis during the conduct of the study. Dr. Mokhtari reports grants from Region Skåne and ALF during the conduct of the study. Dr. Mueller reports grants from several diagnostic companies during the conduct of the study and personal fees from several diagnostic companies outside the submitted work. Dr. Parsonage reports a grant from Roche Diagnostics during the conduct of the study and personal fees from Pfizer outside the submitted work. Dr. Peacock reports grants and personal fees from Abbott, Alere, and Roche outside the submitted work. Dr. Richards reports nonfinancial support from Roche Diagnostics during the conduct of the study and personal fees from Roche Diagnostics outside the submitted work. Dr. Troughton reports a grant from the Health Research Council of New Zealand during the conduct of the study. Dr. Twerenbold reports a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and personal fees from Roche and Abbott outside the submitted work. Dr. Young reports a postdoctoral research fellowship with The Heart Foundation. Authors not named here have disclosed no conflicts of interest. Disclosures can also be viewed at
www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M16-2562.
Editors' Disclosures: Christine Laine, MD, MPH, Editor in Chief, reports that she has no financial relationships or interests to disclose. Darren B. Taichman, MD, PhD, Executive Deputy Editor, reports that he has no financial relationships or interests to disclose. Cynthia D. Mulrow, MD, MSc, Senior Deputy Editor, reports that she has no relationships or interests to disclose. Deborah Cotton, MD, MPH, Deputy Editor, reports that she has no financial relationships or interest to disclose. Jaya K. Rao, MD, MHS, Deputy Editor, reports that she has stock holdings/options in Eli Lilly and Pfizer. Sankey V. Williams, MD, Deputy Editor, reports that he has no financial relationships or interests to disclose. Catharine B. Stack, PhD, MS, Deputy Editor for Statistics, reports that she has stock holdings in Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.
Reproducible Research Statement: Study protocol: See
Supplement 1.
Statistical code: Not available.
Data set: All data needed to reproduce the statistics are provided in the text and
Supplement 2.
Corresponding Author: Martin Than, MBBS, Emergency Department, Christchurch Hospital, Private Bag 4710, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand; e-mail,
[email protected].
Current Author Addresses: Dr. Pickering: Department of Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, PO Box 4345, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
Dr. Than: Emergency Consultant, Emergency Department, Christchurch Hospital, Private Bag 4710, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
Drs. Cullen and Greenslade: Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Butterfield Street, Herston, Queensland 4029, Australia.
Dr. Aldous: Cardiologist, Cardiology Department, Christchurch Hospital, Private Bag 4710, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
Dr. ter Avest: Emergency Consultant, Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical Centre Leeuwarden, Postbus 888, 8901 BR Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.
Dr. Body: Emergency Consultant, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
Dr. Carlton: Emergency Consultant, Emergency Department, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, Southmead Road, Bristol BS10 5NB, United Kingdom.
Dr. Collinson: Consultant Chemical Pathologist and Professor of Cardiovascular Biomarkers, Departments of Clinical Blood Sciences and Cardiology, St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Blackshaw Road, Tooting, London SW17 0QT, United Kingdom.
Dr. Dupuy: Physician and Biologist, Hôpital Lapeyronie, Laboratoire de Biochimie et d'Hormonologie, 371 Avenue du Doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295 Montpellier, cédex 5, France.
Dr. Ekelund: Emergency Consultant, Department of Emergency and Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Klinikgatan 15, 221 85 Lund, Sweden.
Dr. Eggers: Cardiologist, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Box 256, 751 05 Uppsala, Sweden.
Dr. Florkowski: Clinical Biochemist and Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Otago Christchurch, PO Box 4345, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
Dr. Freund: Emergency Department, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 75013 Paris, France.
Dr. George: Clinical Biochemist and Professor Department of Pathology, University of Otago Christchurch, PO Box 4345, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
Dr. Goodacre: Professor of Emergency Medicine, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, England Regent Court, Regent Street, Sheffield S1 4DA, United Kingdom.
Dr. Jaffe: Professor of Cardiology and Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905.
Dr. Lord: Epidemiologist, Head of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, The University of Notre Dame Australia, 160 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, New South Wales 2010, Australia.
Dr. Mokhtari: Physician, Department of Emergency and Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Klinikgatan 15, 221 85 Lund, Sweden.
Dr. Mueller: Cardiologist and Professor, Universitätsspital Basel, Kardiologie, Petersgraben 4, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.
Dr. Munro: Emergency Physician, Emergency Department, Private Bag 18, Nelson Hospital, Nelson 7042, New Zealand.
Dr. Mustapha: Emergency Consultant, Emergency Department, Hôpital Lapeyronie, Laboratoire de Biochimie et d'Hormonologie, 371 Avenue du Doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295 Montpellier, cédex 5, France.
Dr. Parsonage: Cardiologist, Cardiology Department, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Butterfield Street, Herston, Queensland 4029, Australia.
Dr. Peacock: Emergency Physician and Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030.
Dr. Pemberton: Biochemist and Associate Professor, Christchurch Heart Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, PO Box 4345, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
Drs. Richards and Troughton: Cardiologist and Professor, Christchurch Heart Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, PO Box 4345, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
Dr. Sanchis: Cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology, Catedrático de Medicina (Cardiología), CIBERCV, Universidad de Valencia, Jefe de la Unidad de Hemodinámica y Cardiología intervencionista, Hospital Clínico Universitario, 46010 Valencia, Spain.
Dr. Staub: Epidemiologist, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Locked Bag 77, Camperdown, New South Wales 1450, Australia.
Dr. Twerenbold: Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), Universitätsspital Basel, Kardiologie, Petersgraben 4, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.
Dr. Wildi: Senior Physician, Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Universitätsspital Basel, Kardiologie, Petersgraben 4, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.
Dr. Young: Research Scientist, Emergency Department, Christchurch Hospital, Private Bag 4710, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
Author Contributions: Conception and design: J.W. Pickering, M.P. Than, L. Cullen, S. Aldous, R. Body, E.W. Carlton, C. Mueller, A.M. Richards.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: J.W. Pickering, M.P. Than, S. Aldous, R. Body, E.W. Carlton, A.M. Dupuy, U. Ekelund, P. George, J.H. Greenslade, A.S. Jaffe, S.J. Lord, C. Mueller, W.F. Peacock, C. Pemberton, A.M. Richards, L.P. Staub, R. Troughton.
Drafting of the article: J.W. Pickering, L. Cullen, E.W. Carlton, A.S. Jaffe, A. Munro, W. Parsonage, L.P. Staub.
Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: J.W. Pickering, M.P. Than, L. Cullen, S. Aldous, E. ter Avest, R. Body, E.W. Carlton, P. Collinson, U. Ekelund, K.M. Eggers, C.M. Florkowski, P. George, S. Goodacre, J.H. Greenslade, S.J. Lord, A. Mokhtari, C. Mueller, S. Mustapha, W. Parsonage, W.F. Peacock, C. Pemberton, A.M. Richards, J. Sanchis, L.P. Staub, R. Troughton, R. Twerenbold, K. Wildi.
Final approval of the article: J.W. Pickering, M.P. Than, L. Cullen, S. Aldous, E. ter Avest, R. Body, E.W. Carlton, P. Collinson, A.M. Dupuy, U. Ekelund, K.M. Eggers, C.M. Florkowski, Y. Freund, P. George, S. Goodacre, J.H. Greenslade, A.S. Jaffe, S.J. Lord, A. Mokhtari, C. Mueller, A. Munro, S. Mustapha, W. Parsonage, W.F. Peacock, C. Pemberton, A.M. Richards, J. Sanchis, L.P. Staub, R. Troughton, R. Twerenbold, K. Wildi, J. Young.
Provision of study materials or patients: L. Cullen, P. Collinson, A. Mokhtari, C. Mueller, S. Mustapha, A.M. Richards, R. Troughton.
Statistical expertise: J.W. Pickering, C. Mueller.
Obtaining of funding: M.P. Than, L. Cullen, J.H. Greenslade, C. Mueller, W. Parsonage, C. Pemberton, A.M. Richards.
Administrative, technical, or logistic support: J.W. Pickering, P. George, A.S. Jaffe, C. Mueller, A.M. Richards, R. Troughton, R. Twerenbold, J. Young.
Collection and assembly of data: J.W. Pickering, L. Cullen, E. ter Avest, R. Body, E.W. Carlton, P. Collinson, A.M. Dupuy, U. Ekelund, C.M. Florkowski, Y. Freund, P. George, S. Goodacre, J.H. Greenslade, A. Mokhtari, C. Mueller, A. Munro, W. Parsonage, C. Pemberton, J. Sanchis, R. Twerenbold, K. Wildi, J. Young.
This article was published at
Annals.org on 18 April 2017.
* Drs. Pickering and Than contributed equally to this work.
Concerns
In response: