Annals of emergency medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Push-Alert Notification of Troponin Results to Physician Smartphones Reduces the Time to Discharge Emergency Department Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
For emergency department (ED) patients with chest pain, discharge decisions often hinge on troponin results. Push-alert notifications deliver results immediately to physician smartphones. Our objective is to determine whether troponin push alerts improve the time to discharge decisions for ED patients with chest pain. ⋯ Physicians who received troponin push alerts discharged their patients with chest pain 26 minutes faster than those without troponin notifications. Total ED length of stay did not significantly improve for these patients.