Physician's first clinical impression of emergency department patients with nonspecific complaints is associated with morbidity and mortality

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2015, Pages e374-

  Beglinger, Bettina ^a   Rohacek, Martin ^a   Ackermann, Selina ^a   Hertwig, Ralph ^b   Karakoumis Ilsemann, Julia ^a   Boutellier, Susanne ^a   Geigy, Nicolas ^c   Nickel, Christian ^a   Bingisser, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c Hospital of Liestal   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL IMPRESSION; EMERGENCY WARD; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONSPECIFIC COMPLAINT; NUMERICAL RATING SCALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; SECONDARY CARE CENTER; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; ADULT; AGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MORBIDITY; PHYSICIANS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84928425552     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000000374     Document Type: Article

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