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The Impact of an Instant Pregnancy Test Kit on the Operations of a Major Hospital Casualty Department
Author(s) -
Baber Rodney J.,
Bonifacio Michael,
Saunders Douglas M.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1988.tb01642.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy test , instant , emergency department , pregnancy , test (biology) , medical emergency , medical record , emergency medicine , obstetrics , surgery , physics , quantum mechanics , psychiatry , biology , paleontology , genetics
Summary: The records of all patients on whom a casualty department pregnancy test was performed during the first 4 months of 1986 were retrospectively examined and compared with the records of all patients who in the first 4 months of 1987 had had an instant pregnancy test performed in the same casualty departement, to determine the impact of such a kit on diagnostic accuracy, operative procedures and related economic factors.