title: Prevalence of acute and prodromal myocardial infarctions symptoms in adult women with confirmed diagnoses: a systematic review protocol.
abstract: The purpose of this review is to systematically review literature to determine the period of prevalence of prodromal and acute symptoms experienced by adult women diagnosed with an acute myocardial infarction (AMI).More specifically, the objective of this descriptive review is to assess the prevalence and describe the distribution of prodromal and acute symptoms experienced by adult women during an AMI event, evident in documented literature between 1994 and the present date.The specific question for this review is: how common and how are prodromal and acute symptoms of an AMI distributed in adult women diagnosed with an AMI?
  
  
  
  University of Victoria and the Queen's Joanna Briggs Collaboration for Patient Safety: a Collaborating Centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Clare
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Koning
authors.forename: Lynne E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Butcher
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015995:Prevalence; D000078202:Systematic Reviews as Topic