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What Happens to Patients Discharged Against Medical Advice?

INTRODUCTION: Discharge against medical advice (DAMA) when requested by family members of patients in Indian Critical Care Units (CCUs) leads to loss of follow-up and unknown patient outcomes. Exclusion of these patients from research analysis and quality audits confounds these results. We hence exp...

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Autores principales: Ramakrishnan, Nagarajan, Ranganathan, Lakshmi, Abraham, Babu K., Rajagopalan, Senthilkumar, Venkataraman, Ramesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6108291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30186008
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_101_18