Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 45, Issue 6 , Pages 587-591 , June 2005

Point-of-Care Testing Reduces Length of Stay in Emergency Department Chest Pain Patients

Received 27 August 2004 ,Revised 18 November 2004 ,Accepted 23 November 2004.

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 Author contributions: AJS was responsible for the study inception. AJS and JA conducted data analysis and manuscript drafting. AJS, JA, JG, and JC conducted study design, data collection, and manuscript review. AJS takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, May 2004, Orlando, FL.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(04)01712-3

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.11.020

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 45, Issue 6 , Pages 587-591 , June 2005

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