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A simple tool to predict admission at the time of triage
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- Published on: 10 March 2015
- Published on: 10 March 2015Re: A simple tool to predict admission at the time of triage. More ammunition in the fight against blaming patients.Show More
We congratulate the authors on this excellent piece of work and are particularly pleased to see method of arrival in their tool as a predictor of admission. In a similar piece of work to predict surgical admissions in our institution we found the same effect (1). At a time when it seems to be politically expedient to scapegoat patients for the overcrowding in our departments and lack of available beds on the wards it is...
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