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Moving diagnostics upstream: prehospital blood gas analysis is associated with safe community care and improved patient selection for hospital admission
2026-04-03
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> Emergency departments (EDs) in high-income countries face rising demand, workforce shortages and crowding. We investigated whether prehospital point-of-care blood gas analysis (BGA), used by emergency physicians, is associated with higher ambulatory treatment rates and improved patient selection for hospital admission. <h4>Methods</h4> We retrospectively analysed routinely...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b1a53481-e1b3-5fbf-8d82-6e96bd0bfe33
- DOI
- 10.64898/2026.04.01.26349943
