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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

paywalled: Emergency department visits for symptoms experienced by oncology patients: a systematic review



Emergency department visits for symptoms... [Support Care Cancer. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI

CONCLUSIONS:

Individuals with cancer present to emergency departments with a myriad of symptoms. Over half of emergency department visits resulted in hospital admissions. Few symptoms were defined adequately to compare data across studies, thereby revealing an important gap in cancer symptom reporting.