{
  "abstract": "The emergency department (ED) use of safe and time-efficient 0-1-hour assessment algorithms for suspected myocardial infarction (MI) is recommended.1 However, laboratory-based high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) results are often not available within 1 hour from blood draw.2 Point-of-care (POC) hs-cTn assays, with shorter turnaround times (TATs), would solve this problem.2 One study has reported reduced ED length of stay (LOS) from POC-hs-cTnI use in routine clinical care.3 At the Victorian Heart Hospital ED (Monash Health, Australia), we evaluated one of the available POC-hs-cTnI assays, the TriageTrue analyser (QuidelOrtho Corporation, San Diego, California, USA), for which evidence of benefits in actual practice remains limited.4 5 We compared the potential LOS which could result from POC use with the actual LOS using our laboratory Access hsTnI assay.6 Characteristics of both assays are defined and publicly available.6 The study was approved by the institutional ethics committee as a quality assurance project not requiring patient consent.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Emergency Department, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia",
        "Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Robert Meek"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia",
        "Pathology, Monash Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Zhong Xian Lu"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Pathology, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia",
        "Biochemistry, University of Sri Jayewardenepura Faculty of Medical Sciences, Nugegoda, WP, Sri Lanka"
      ],
      "name": "Udara Dilrukshi Senarathne"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia",
        "Cardiology, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Sean Tan"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Emergency and Trauma Centre, Herston, Queensland, Australia",
        "Department of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Louise Cullen"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand",
        "Emergency Department, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand"
      ],
      "name": "John W Pickering"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Emergency Department, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand",
        "Department of Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand"
      ],
      "name": "Martin Paul Than"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia",
        "Department of Emergency Medicine, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Georgina Hayden"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Emergency Medicine, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Adam Damianopoulos"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia",
        "Emergency Medicine, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Claire Charteris"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia",
        "Emergency Medicine, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Alex Duong"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Emergency Department, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia",
        "School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Diana Egerton-Warburton"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Potential impact of a point-of-care high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assay on emergency department length of stay and patient disposition: findings from a cardiac emergency department",
  "uid": "8ae74029-371a-510f-ab41-3fdcb9d83ac6"
}