Table 1: The most frequent Emergency department diagnosis.
Diagnosis | Discharge diagnosis (from IM Department) Gold standard (correct) | Emergency Department correct diagnosis (equal to Gold standard) | Correct (%) | Wrong (%) | Priority Error | Incomplete diagnosis | Wrong |
1. Cardiac failure | 53 | 37 | 69 | 20 | | 5 | 11 |
2. Pneumonia | 43 | 26 | 60 | 30 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
3. TIA | 31 | 19 | 61 | 25 | | 4 | 8 |
4. Respiratory Failure | 28 | 20 | 71 | 0,03 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
5. COPD | 21 | 11 | 52 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
6. Fever | 18 | 5 | 27 | 61 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
7. Stroke | 15 | 12 | 80 | 0,06 | | 2 | 1 |
8. Cirrhosis | 15 | 12 | 80 | 20 | | | 3 |
9. Syncope | 15 | 7 | 46 | 54 | | | 8 |
10. Urinary tract infection | 14 | 8 | 57 | 36 | | 1 | 5 |
11. Dementia/chronicva scularenc ephalopaty | 13 | 4 | 30 | 70 | | | 9 |
12. Dehydration | 8 | 5 | 62 | 38 | | | 3 |
13. Hyponatremia | 7 | 4 | 57 | 43 | | | 3 |
Total | 281 | 170 | 60% | 29% | 6 | 24 | 81 |
Other diagnosis | 36 | 10 | | | | 3 | 23 |
GENERAL TOTAL | 317 | 180 | 56,7% | 32,8% | | 27 | 104 |