Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Jun 2012
Effect on emergency department efficiency of an accelerated diagnostic pathway for the evaluation of chest pain.
To compare ED efficiency measures between a trial period using an accelerated diagnostic pathway (ADP) for chest pain evaluation, and a control period using a traditional diagnostic pathway (TDP). ⋯ The ADP utilizing point-of-care multimarkers led to significantly shorter ED LOS for both discharged and admitted chest pain patients. This was associated with increased cardiac cubicle throughput, but improvements in other whole ED performance indicators were not demonstrated.
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Emerg Med Australas · Jun 2012
Editorial CommentDisaster triage: evidence, consistency and standard practice.