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International Journal of Community & Family Medicine Volume 3 (2018), Article ID 3:IJCFM-137, 5 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-3498/2018/137
Research Article
Who Makes the Diagnosis? A Retrospective Observational Study Comparing the Emergency Department Initial Diagnosis and the Internal Medicine Discharge Diagnosis

Filomena Pietrantonio1* and E. Scotti2

1Internal Medicine Unit, Manerbio Hospital Manerbio (BS), ASST-Garda, Italy
2Acute Internal Medicine Unit, INI Research Insitute and Clinic, Grottaferrata (Rome), Italy
Dr. Filomena Pietrantonio, Internal Medicine Unit, Manerbio Hospital Manerbio (BS), Brescia, ASST-Garda, Italy; E-mail: filomena.pietrantonio@gmail.com
20 October 2017; 15 March 2018; 17 March 2018
Pietrantonio F, Scotti E (2018) Who Makes the Diagnosis? A Retrospective Observational Study Comparing the Emergency Department Initial Diagnosis and the Internal Medicine Discharge Diagnosis. Int J Community Fam Med 3: 137. https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-3498/2018/137
© 2018 Pietrantonio et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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