title: The chest pain center as an operational model.
abstract: The purposes of this paper are to establish the acute coronary syndrome as a pathophysiologic model, to establish the Chest Pain Center model as a complementary operational model that can be employed by a wide range of hospitals that seek to improve the process of care related to acute coronary syndromes, to differentiate process improvement versus performance improvement, and to establish the individual facility as the nidus for the improvement process.
authors.affiliation: Wayne State University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Anthony J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Joseph