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Diagnostic error increases mortality and length of hospital stay in patients presenting through the emergency room
BACKGROUND: Diagnostic errors occur frequently, especially in the emergency room. Estimates about the consequences of diagnostic error vary widely and little is known about the factors predicting error. Our objectives thus was to determine the rate of discrepancy between diagnoses at hospital admiss...
Autores principales: | Hautz, Wolf E., Kämmer, Juliane E., Hautz, Stefanie C., Sauter, Thomas C., Zwaan, Laura, Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K., Birrenbach, Tanja, Maier, Volker, Müller, Martin, Schauber, Stefan K. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6505221/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31068188 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-019-0629-z |
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