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

Overview of attention for article published in Critical Care, December 2014
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Title
Point-of-care testing in the overcrowded emergency department – can it make a difference?
Published in
Critical Care, December 2014
DOI 10.1186/s13054-014-0692-9
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Authors

Kevin D Rooney, Ulf Martin Schilling

Abstract

Emergency departments (EDs) face several challenges in maintaining consistent quality care in the face of steadily increasing public demand. Improvements in the survival rate of critically ill patients in the ED are directly related to the advancement of early recognition and treatment. Frequent episodes of overcrowding and prolonged waiting times force EDs to operate beyond their capacity and threaten to impact upon patient care. The objectives of this review are as follows: (a) to establish overcrowding as a threat to patient outcomes, person-centered care, and public safety in the ED; (b) to describe scenarios in which point-of-care testing (POCT) has been found to ameliorate factors thought to contribute to overcrowding; and (c) to discuss how POCT can be used directly, and indirectly, to expedite patient care and improve outcomes. Various studies have shown that overcrowding in the ED has profound effects on operational efficiency and patient care. Several reports have quantified overcrowding in the ED and have described a relationship between heightened periods of overcrowding and delays in treatment, increased incidence of adverse events, and an even greater probability of mortality. In certain scenarios, POCT has been found to increase the number of patients discharged in a timely manner, expedite triage of urgent but non-emergency patients, and decrease delays to treatment initiation. This review concludes that POCT, when used effectively, may alleviate the negative impacts of overcrowding on the safety, effectiveness, and person-centeredness of care in the ED.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 207 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 32 15%
Student > Bachelor 28 13%
Other 22 11%
Researcher 20 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 7%
Other 36 17%
Unknown 57 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 61 29%
Nursing and Health Professions 25 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 5%
Engineering 9 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 3%
Other 31 15%
Unknown 66 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 40. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 January 2023.
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#4
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