Two ECGs and a history: a guide to early hospital discharge of patients with 'chest pain?
A careful clinical history taken by experienced junior staff together with two sequential ECGs, can identify patients who may be discharged within 24 hours of admission with chest pain of uncertain origin. Significant bed savings would result from the instigation of this practice, with minimal requirement for extra resources.
Users searching full text are more likely to find relevant articles than searching only abstracts. This finding affirms the value of full text collections for text retrieval and provides a starting point for future work in exploring algorithms that take advantage of rapidly-growing digital archives. Experimental results also highlight the need to develop distributed text retrieval algorithms, since full-text articles are significantly longer than abstracts and may require the computational resources of multiple machines in a cluster. The MapReduce programming model provides a convenient framework for organizing such computations.