Utility of clinical examination in the diagnosis of emergency department patients admitted to the department of medicine of an academic hospital.

Liza Paley; Taiba Zornitzki; Joel Cohen; Joshua Friedman; Natalia Kozak; Ami Schattner

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Utility of clinical examination in the diagnosis of emergency department patients admitted to the department of medicine of an academic hospital.

October 12, 2011

Paley L, Zornitzki T, Cohen J, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171(15):1394-6.

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This research letter examines the value of the physical examination in forming a correct diagnosis on admission. The authors found that four out of five internal medicine patients in the emergency department could be correctly diagnosed from information gleaned by the history, physical examination, and basic laboratory tests.

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