Emergency Physician and Advanced Practice Provider Diagnostic Testing and Admission Decisions in Chest Pain and Abdominal Pain.
CONCLUSION: Diagnostic testing and hospitalization rates for chest pain and abdominal pain between APPs and physicians is largely similar after matching for severity and complexity. This suggests that APPs do not have observably higher use of ED and hospital resources in these conditions in this national group.
PMID: 33107088 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Pines JM, Zocchi MS, Ritsema TS, Bedolla J, Venkat A, US Acute Care Solutions Research Group Tags: Acad Emerg Med Source Type: research
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