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

• Главные авторы: Abdi D. Osman (Автор), Jocelyn Howell (Автор), Michael Yeoh (Автор), Damian Wilson (Автор), Virginia Plummer (Автор), George Braitberg (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: BMC, 2024-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...