Article History
Received: 27 February 2018
Accepted: 13 September 2018
First Online: 2 October 2018
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: Barbra Backus has published and presented widely on the HEART score and was a member of the research team who derived the HEART score. Aside from her intellectual passion, she has no financial or other known competing interests. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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