Footnotes

• Full membership of the Guideline Development Group

  Professor John Camm (Chair)

  BHF Professor of Clinical Cardiology, St. George's Hospital, University of London

  Prof Huon Gray

  Clinical Advisor, National Clinical Guideline Centre (NCGC), London; Consultant Cardiologist, Southampton University Hospital

  Mr Sotiris Antoniou Principal Cardiac Pharmacist, Barts and the London NHS Trust and Lead Pharmacist for North East London Cardiac and Stroke Network

  Ms Lina Bakhshi

  Senior Information Scientist, NCGC

  Ms Jenny Cadman

  Cardiac Rehabilitation Service Manager, Senior Nurse in Cardiology,

  Luton and Dunstable

  Dr Emily Crowe

  Senior Research Fellow, NCGC (from May 2008)

  Dr Mark de Belder

  Consultant Cardiologist, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough

  Dr Jose Diaz

  Research Fellow, NCGC (until May 2008)

  Mr David H Geldard

  Patient/Carer representative; Immediate Past President, Heart Care Partnership (UK)

  Dr Robert Henderson

  Consultant Cardiologist, Nottingham University Hospitals

  Professor Marjan Jahangiri

  Professor of Cardiac Surgery, St George's Hospital, University of London

  Ms Taryn Krause

  Senior Project Manager, NCGC (from November 2008)

  Miss Kate Lovibond

  Health Economist, NCGC

  Mr Gavin Maxwell

  Patient/Carer representative, Patient and Carer Network,

  Royal College of Physicians of London

  Dr Francis Morris

  Accident and Emergency Physician, Sheffield University Hospitals

  Mr Alun Roebuck

  Cardiology Nurse Consultant, Sunderland

  Ms Nicola Sloan

  Research Fellow, NCBC (July 2008-March 2009)

  Ms Claire Turner

  Senior Project Manager, NCBC (until November 2008)

  Professor S Richard Underwood

  Professor of Cardiac Imaging, Royal Brompton Hospital, London

  Mr Mark Whitbread

  Clinical Practice Manager/Senior Paramedic/Cardiac Lead Medical Directorate, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

• Funding This work was undertaken by National Clinical Guideline Centre for Acute and Chronic Conditions which received funding from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Institute.

• Competing interests None.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

• ↵i See full guideline for details of the modification, which used surrogates of heart failure and renal impairment recorded in MINAP, for Killip class and creatinine recorded in GRACE. Adjustment resulted in risk stratification by mini-GRACE being very similar to that of the full GRACE score.