Chest Pain Hospitalizations: How Varying Emergency Clinician Tendencies Impact Care, Outcomes, and Costs

Background: The practice of hospitalizing emergency department (ED) patients with chest pain after ruling out acute myocardial infarction (AMI) varies widely. The long-term outcome and cost implications of this variation are uncertain. Methods: Analyzing 2007-2021 claims from a national commercial insurer, we identified 223,569 adults (18 years or older) ED visits with a principal diagnosis of chest pain without major secondary cardiopulmonary diagnoses, seen by 19,001 clinicians in 2,273 EDs. Within each ED, clinicians with the highest and lowest terciles of risk-adjusted hospitalization rate

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