What are the benefits of establishing a national registry for people who are undergoing initial assessment for stable angina?
Establishing a national registry for people who are undergoing initial assessment for stable angina would offer the following methodological strengths: statistical size, representative patients without work-up bias, contemporary data. This would overcome key problems in much of the existing evidence base. Accurate assessment of pre-test likelihood of coronary disease is needed to inform the cost-effective choice of investigative technologies such as CT coronary calcium scoring for people with chest pain that may be caused by myocardial ischaemia.