| Title |
The Impact of Triage Nurse-ordered Diagnostic Studies on Pediatric Emergency Department Length of Stay
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Indian Journal of Pediatrics, January 2018
|
| DOI | 10.1007/s12098-018-2617-0 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Youwei Li, Qunfeng Lu, Hua Du, Jianping Zhang, Lingling Zhang |
| Abstract |
To identify the need to revise the program triage nurse-ordered diagnostic tests in the emergency department (ED) of pediatric hospital, and to evaluate implementation of this program with three laboratory routine tests, namely blood, urine and stool, which the triage nurses ordered as relevant to pediatric patients' symptoms. The authors retrospectively reviewed the data of patients who registered in their ED between December 2015 and April 2016, including the tests as per the orders by triage nurses, and the time they arrived and the time they had their final payments. A comparison was made of those, who stayed in the ED, with nurse-requested tests, to those without such tests. The review indicated the total number of subjects who presented in ED during the study period and were included in the study was 116,202; 65.4% with nurse-requested tests while 34.6% without such tests. On median, the length of their stay with nurse-requested tests was 229 min and without such tests was 244 min, which has significant difference (P = 0.000). The results of this program were associated with a reduction in ED treatment which achieved the purpose to improve high patient flow in the emergency department. However, this intervention needs further studies to develop the nurse-ordered diagnostic studies program with more different clinical conditions and tests including triage nurses training and guideline. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 4 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | 25% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 40 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 40 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 8 | 20% |
| Researcher | 5 | 13% |
| Professor | 2 | 5% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 7 | 18% |
| Unknown | 14 | 35% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 25% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 20% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 5% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 3% |
| Engineering | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 18 | 45% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 May 2021.
All research outputs
#14,090,698
of 23,018,998 outputs
Outputs from Indian Journal of Pediatrics
#860
of 1,551 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#232,828
of 441,261 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Indian Journal of Pediatrics
#13
of 30 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,018,998 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 37th percentile – i.e., 37% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,551 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.1. This one is in the 43rd percentile – i.e., 43% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 441,261 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one is in the 45th percentile – i.e., 45% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.
We're also able to compare this research output to 30 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 56% of its contemporaries.