ED chief complaint categories for a medical student curriculum
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ED chief complaint categories for a medical student curriculum
BACKGROUND It is important to stimulate the interest of all medical students in emergency medicine to further its growth nationally and internationally. Students focused on other specialties can benefit from exposure to the more common, less acute problems seen in the emergency department (ED). AIMS We developed a categorization system for chief complaints (CC) in an academic ED fast track (F...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1865-1372,1865-1380
DOI: 10.1007/s12245-008-0027-1