Benefits of emergency department routine blood test performance on patients whose allocated triage category is not time critical: a retrospective study
Blood testing in the emergency department in triaged non-time critical patients was found to be frequent thereby affecting nurses' already stretched time resource. Older patients were found to be more likely to have a blood test. There is a positive correlation between blood test performance and length of stay in the emergency department.
Authors
- Damian Wilson
- Michael Yeoh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7316-9003)
- Abdi D. Osman
- George Braitberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4013-3364)
- Jocelyn Howell
- Virginia Plummer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3214-6904)
Institutions
- Federation University (AU)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Sunshine Hospital (AU)
- Austin Health (AU)
- Victoria University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Health Services Research
- Published
- 2024-10-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11612-w
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.76