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Clinicians often engage in much discussion about the most appropriate inpatient service for emergency department patients who require admission for evaluation of possible acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Emergency physicians often are caught in the middle when different services don’t agree, and little research is available to guide them. In a study of 544 ED patients who were admitted to one of two hospitals for evaluation of possible ACS, researchers compared ED revisits and rehospitalization, adverse events, in-hospital use of American College of Cardiology (ACC) guideline-recommended therapy, and 30-day outcomes between the 372 patients who were admitted to cardiology services and the 172 patients who were admitted to noncardiology servic…