Point-of-Care Troponin T Testing in the Management of Patients with Chest Pain in the Swedish Primary Care

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=128^1	Patients from PHC centres without POCT-TnT; 𝑛=68^1	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 necessary^2, 𝑛 (%)	52 (41)	27 (40)	0.083

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