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Patients who leave the emergency department against medical advice

OBJECTIVE: Discharge against medical advice (DAMA) from the emergency department (ED) accounts for 0.1% to 2.7% of all ED discharges. DAMA carries a risk of increased mortality and readmissions. Our aim was to investigate the general characteristics of DAMA patients and the differences between them...

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Autores principales: Lee, Choung Ah, Cho, Joon Pil, Choi, Sang Cheon, Kim, Hyuk Hoon, Park, Ju Ok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Emergency Medicine 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5051605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27752623
http://dx.doi.org/10.15441/ceem.15.015