Clinical characteristics of emergency department heart failure patients initially diagnosed as non-heart failure

BACKGROUND: Since previous studies suggest the emergency department (ED) misdiagnosis rate of heart failure is 10–20% we sought to describe the characteristics of ED patients misdiagnosed as non-decompensated heart failure in the ED. METHODS: We analyzed a prospective convenience sample of 439 patie...

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Autores principales: Collins, Sean P, Lindsell, Christopher J, Peacock, W Frank, Eckert, Daniel C, Askew, Jeff, Storrow, Alan B
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1654167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17105668
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-227X-6-11

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1654167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17105668
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-227X-6-11

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