Impact of a POCUS-first versus CT-first approach on emergency department length of stay and time to surgical consultation in patients with acute cholecystitis: a retrospective study

Table 2 The effect of different timing of point-of-care ultrasound and computed tomography on length of stay and time to surgical consultation

	60 min	90 min	120 min
PoCUS-first group
ED length of stay	− 0.203^† (p = 0.002)	− 0.220 (p = 0.001)	− 0.188 (p = 0.003)
Time to surgical consultation	− 0.281 (p < 0.001)	− 0.213 (p = 0.004)	− 0.204 (p = 0.007)
CT-first group
ED length of stay	− 0.045 (p = 0.108)	− 0.045 (p = 0.107)	− 0.079 (p = 0.005)
Time to surgical consultation	− 0.067 (p = 0.038)	− 0.158 (p < 0.001)	− 0.199 (p < 0.001)

*PoCUS point-of-care ultrasound; ED emergency department; CT computed tomography
^†Theβ-value in the linear regression model, after adjusting other covariates

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