Point-of-care testing in the overcrowded emergency department - Can it make a difference?

Critical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rooney, Kevin D ^a   Schilling, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CROWDING (AREA); DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; THREAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS; STROKE; TIME;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CROWDING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84924274597     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-014-0692-9     Document Type: Article

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