Disagreement between emergency physician and inpatient physician diagnosis of infection in older adults admitted from the emergency department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 908-915

  Caterino, Jeffrey M ^a   Stevenson, Kurt B ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CELLULITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CYSTITIS; DECUBITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISKITIS; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; EMPYEMA; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTED DECUBITUS ULCER; INFECTION; INPATIENT PHYSICIAN; LIVER ABSCESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGITIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PERITONITIS; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATITIS; PYELONEPHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN ABSCESS; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84865369829     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01415.x     Document Type: Article

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