Chest Pain Management Using Prehospital Point-of-Care Troponin and Paramedic Risk Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Prehospital point-of-care troponin testing and paramedic risk stratification might improve the efficiency of chest pain care pathways compared with existing processes with equivalent health outcomes, but the association with health care costs is unclear.

Objective

To analyze whether prehospital point-of-care troponin testing and paramedic risk stratification could result in cost savings compared with existing chest pain care pathways.

Design, setting, and participants

In this economic evaluation of adults with acute chest pain without ST-segment elevation, cost-minimization analysis was used to assess linked ambulance, emergency, and hospital attendance in the state of Victoria, Australia, between January 1, 2015, and June 30, 2019.

Interventions

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SUBMITTER: Dawson LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9887542 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature