An interventional program for diagnostic testing in the emergency department
- 5 August 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 177 (3) , 131-134
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04697.x
Abstract
Objective: To evaluate an intervention developed to improve test‐ordering practice. Setting: Public hospital emergency department with an annual census of 42 500. The study comprised a six‐month pre‐...Keywords
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