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- Title
Disagreement between emergency physician and inpatient physician diagnosis of infection in older adults admitted from the emergency department.
- Authors
Caterino, Jeffrey M; Stevenson, Kurt B
- Abstract
Older adults with infection are at increased risk of misdiagnosis while they are patients in the emergency department (ED) due to the common presence of nonspecific signs and symptoms. The primary objective was to determine the proportion of admitted older adult patients thought by the emergency physician (EP) to be infected, as compared with the diagnostic impression of inpatient physicians. The secondary objective was to determine the agreement between EP and inpatient physician diagnosis of specific infection types.
- Publication
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2012, Vol 19, Issue 8, p908
- ISSN
1553-2712
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01415.x