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Safe discharge: an irrational, unhelpful and unachievable concept

Emergency doctors often decide whether to advise hospital admission or discharge by assessing whether a decision to discharge home is considered safe. This implies that hospital admission may be recommended on the basis of exceeding an arbitrarily defined risk of adverse outcome, rather than weighin...

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Main Author: Goodacre, S
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BMJ Group 2006
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2579591/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16988299
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.2006.037903
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