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How much risk are emergency department patients willing to accept to avoid diagnostic testing

OBJECTIVES: There is a paucity of research evaluating the risk tolerance of Emergency Department (ED) patients. We hypothesized that a significant percentage of ED patients surveyed would be comfortable with ≥5% risk of adverse outcome if they avoided testing in several hypothetical scenarios. MATER...

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Autores principales: Padalecki, Jeremy, Xu, K. Tom, Smith, Cynthia, Carrasco, Lynn, Hensley, Justin, Richman, Peter B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5357107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28345068
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tjem.2016.09.009