Benefits of emergency department routine blood test performance on patients whose allocated triage category is not time critical: a retrospective study

• Main Authors: Abdi D. Osman (Author), Jocelyn Howell (Author), Michael Yeoh (Author), Damian Wilson (Author), Virginia Plummer (Author), George Braitberg (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Introduction Emergency department clinicians, and particularly nurses in triage, frequently perform routine blood tests on patients whose allocated triage category is not time critical (triage categories 3, 4 and 5 of the Australasian Triage Scale). Some observers have questioned the utilit...