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by Emma Whitfield, Becky White, Matthew E. Barclay, Meena Rafiq, Nadine Zakkak, Marta Berglund, Hardeep Singh, Sean McPhail, Spiros Denaxas, Georgios Lyratzopoulos Background In patients with cancer, diagnosis through or soon after the use of emergency hospital care (โemergency diagnosisโ) is associated with advanced disease and poor prognosis. The varied and complex reasons for emergency diagnosesโincluding rapid disease progression, patient factors, and system delaysโare unlikely to be unique to cancer. However, little is known about the frequency and prognostic outcomesโฆ
This is a developing story.
Source: Frequency and prognostic outcomes of emergency diagnosis in 13 non-neoplasticโฆ
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