Factors predisposing to a nonadmission of patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Unlabelled: Among patients presenting at the hospital with an acute myocardial infarction (AMI), about 2-6% are mistakenly discharged by emergency physicians. The relevance of diagnostic problems in the prehospital period of an AMI is unknown. We prospectively studied 421 patients seen by a primary care physician in the prehospital period of an AMI.