Emergency presentations with nonspecific complaints-the burden of morbidity and the spectrum of underlying disease: Nonspecific complaints and underlying disease

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 94, Issue 26, 2015, Pages

  Karakoumis, Julia ^a   Nickel, Christian H ^a   Kirsch, Mark ^a   Rohacek, Martin ^a   Geigy, Nicolas ^b   Müller, Beat ^c   Ackermann, Selina ^a   Bingisser, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Kantonsspital Liestal   (Switzerland)

^c CANTONAL HOSPITAL AARAU   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEHYDRATION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; ICD-10; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONSPECIFIC COMPLAINT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWITZERLAND;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84942517324     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000000840     Document Type: Article

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