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- Title
Diagnosing Dyspneic Older Adult Emergency Department Patients: A Pilot Study.
- Authors
Hunold, Katherine M.; Schwaderer, Andrew L.; Exline, Matthew; Hebert, Courtney; Lampert, Brent C.; Southerland, Lauren T.; Stephens, Julie A.; Bischof, Jason J.; Caterino, Jeffrey M.; Mark Courtney, D.
- Abstract
In the article, the authors discuss a pilot study on the diagnosis of dyspnea in older adult patients in emergency departments (ED). Other topics include the challenges in the accurate differentiation of pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and congestive heart failure (HF), and the role of antimicrobial peptides (AMP) in accurate dyspnea diagnosis.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DIAGNOSIS of dyspnea; PILOT projects; STATISTICS; PNEUMONIA; SCIENTIFIC observation; ACADEMIC medical centers; CONFIDENCE intervals; PATIENTS; RESPIRATORY measurements; BLOOD collection; DYSPNEA; T-test (Statistics); EMERGENCY medical services; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases; LEUKOCYTE count; DATA analysis software; LONGITUDINAL method; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Academic Emergency Medicine, 2021, Vol 28, Issue 6, p675
- ISSN
1069-6563
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/acem.14183