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Research type:	Primary Research (e.g. trial)
Title (lead author) etc:	The RATPAC (Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac markers) trial: a randomised controlled trial of point-of-care cardiac markers in the emergency department (Goodacre) 108 pages, Volume 15, number 23
DOI	10.3310/hta15230
This publication is now a part of the NIHR Journals Library. Documents relating to the publication can be found at the corresponding journal issue page, which is at the following link: http://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hta/volume-15/issue-23 Outputs from this project Goodacre, S; Bradburn, M; Cross, E; Collinson, P; Gray, A; Hall, A. The RATPAC Trial (Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac markers): A randomised controlled trial of point-of-care cardiac markers in the emergency department. Heart 2011; 97(3):190-196. Goodacre, S; Bradburn ,M; Mohamed, A; Gray, A. Evaluation of GRACE and TIMI scores in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome. American Journal of Emergency Medicine DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2010.09.013. Fitzgerald, P; Goodacre, SW; Cross, E; Dixon, S on behalf of the RATPAC research team. Cost-effectiveness of point-of-care biomarker assessment for suspected myocardial infarction: The Randomized Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac markers (RATPAC) trial. Academic Emergency Medicine, 2011; 18(5):488-495. Fitzgerald, P; Goodacre, SW; Cross, E; Dixon, S. Cost-effectiveness of point-of-care biomarker assessment for suspected myocardial infarction: The RATPAC Trial (Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac markers). Academic Emergency Medicine 2011 May;18(5):488-95. M Bradburn, S Goodacre, P Fitzgerald, T J Coats, A J Gray, T B Hassan, J Humphrey, J M Kendall, J Smith, P Collinson. Inter-hospital variation in the RATPAC Trial. Emergency Medicine Journal doi:10.1136.
This report should be referenced as follows:	Goodacre S, Bradburn M, Fitzgerald P, Cross E, Collinson P, et al. The RATPAC (Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac markers) trial: a randomised controlled trial of point-of-care cardiac markers in the emergency department. Health Technol Assess 2011;15(23).
Project ref:	06/302/19
Original project title:	The RATPAC Trial: Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac markers
Chief Investigator:	Professor Steve Goodacre, Professor of Emergency Medicine, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield
Start Date:	April 2007
Date of publication in HTA journal series (now NIHR Journals Library)	May 2011
Cost:	£776,213
ISRCTN* number:	ISRCTN 37823923 (International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number) URL of this project on the Controlled Trials Website: http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN37823923*
NRR* number, if applicable:	N0484190632 (*National Research Register) The National Research Register was a public database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). It is now an archive of projects from early 2000 to September 2007. Search the NRR archive.
Project Protocol:	Project protocol (pdf format, 120 kbytes)
URL of this page:	http://www.hta.ac.uk/1602

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