Unexpected death within 72 hours of emergency department visit: were those deaths preventable?
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Unexpected death within 72 hours of emergency department visit: were those deaths preventable?
INTRODUCTION We aimed to determine the rate of preventable death in patients who died early and unexpectedly following hospital admission from the emergency department (ED). METHODS We conducted a retrospective multicenter study in four centers from the Paris metropolitan area. Inclusion criteria were medical patients who died in hospital within 72 hours of ED attendance and were not admitted...
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عنوان ژورنال: Critical Care
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-015-0877-x