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. 2013 Jan 10;2013:532093. doi: 10.1155/2013/532093

Table 2.

Management of chest pain patients in primary health care (PHC) centres with and without point-of-care Troponin T testing (POCT-TnT).

  Patients from PHC centres with POCT-TnT
n = 1281 		Patients from PHC centres without POCT-TnT
n = 681 		P value
Management in PHC centres      
 Emergency referral, n (%) 32 (25) 29 (43) 0.011
 Another visit booked, n (%) 18 (14) 2 (3.0) 0.013
 Telephone call, n (%) 25 (20) 9 (13) 0.276
 Back when necessary2, n (%) 52 (41) 27 (40) 0.083

1Information missing for one patient not emergently referred. 2No contacts planned by the GP.