Do acutely admitted medical patients comply with the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol?
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Background The majority of medical patients are admitted unplanned and increasingly more patients are admitted to medical departments. But are these admissions all relevant? The Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP) is an international renowned scoring system that can be used as a marker for the relevancy of unplanned admissions. Our aim was to clarify how large a proportion of the acutely admitted medical patients at our hospital that comply with the AEP criteria.
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