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Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria.

From: Diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal chest pain: design of a multi-purpose trial

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

To be included in the project the participant must

Patients will not be included if any of the following conditions are present

- Have chest pain as their primary complaint.

- Acute coronary syndrome.

- Have an acute episode of pain of less than 7 days duration before admission.

- Previous Percutaneous Coronary Intervention or Coronary Artery By-pass Grafting.

- Consent to the standardized evaluation program at the chest pain clinic.

- Chest pain from other definite cause, cardiac or non-cardiac. The condition must be verified clinically during admission (i.e. pulmonary embolism, pneumonia, dissection of the aorta, ...).

- Have pain in the thorax and/or neck.

- Inflammatory joint disease.

- Be able to read and understand Danish.

- Insulin dependent diabetes

- Be between 18 and 75 year of age.

- Fibromyalgia.

- Be a resident of the Funen County

- Malignant disease.

 

- Apoplexy, dementia, or unable to cooperate.

 

- Major osseous anomaly.

 

- Osteoporosis.

 

- Pregnancy.

 

- Does not want to participate.

 

- Other – the reason for non-inclusion will be registered.