Cancer related emergencies with the chief complaint of pain: Incidence, ED recognition, and quality of care.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ienj.2021.100981
Abstract: BACKGROUND Pain is the most common reason for cancer-related emergency department (ED) visits and a precursor of the urgency of oncological emergencies. PURPOSE To identify the incidence of oncological emergencies with the chief complaint of… read more here.
Keywords: chief complaint; complaint pain; care; oncological emergencies ... See more keywords
Value of medical history in ophthalmology: A study of diagnostic accuracy
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joco.2018.09.001
Abstract: Purpose This study aimed to demonstrate the value of the chief compliant and patient history to accurately diagnose patient pathology without requiring ocular examination or imaging in an outpatient neuro-ophthalmology clinic. Methods We prospectively evaluated… read more here.
Keywords: system; chief complaint; ophthalmology; value ... See more keywords
Calibrating a chief complaint list for low resource settings: a methodologic case study
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DOI: 10.1186/s12245-021-00347-8
Abstract: Background The chief or presenting complaint is the reason for seeking health care, often in the patient’s own words. In limited resource settings, a diagnosis-based approach to quantifying burden of disease is not possible, partly… read more here.
Keywords: medicine; chief complaint; complaint list; study ... See more keywords
Postoperative 30-day emergency department utilization after 7294 cranial neurosurgery procedures at a tertiary neuroscience center.
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DOI: 10.3171/2020.8.jns202404
Abstract: OBJECTIVE Hospital readmission and the reduction thereof has become a major quality improvement initiative in organized medicine and neurosurgery. However, little research has been performed on why neurosurgical patients utilize hospital emergency rooms (ERs) with… read more here.
Keywords: chief complaint; center; neurosurgery; utilization ... See more keywords
The chief complaint driven medical history: implications for medical education
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DOI: 10.5116/ijme.5907.74d8
Abstract: It is the purpose of this paper to present an approach to teaching a concise, focused method to obtain a medical history from patients in the Emergency Department. Diagnostic reasoning starts with the medical history.… read more here.
Keywords: information; chief complaint; emergency; history ... See more keywords