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Cancer complaints: The profile of patients from the emergency department of a Brazilian oncology teaching hospital

2017-10-31

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<h4>Background: </h4> With the increase in prevalence of cancer in our society, we aim to clarify through primary data use what drives emergency department (ED) utilization among patients with cancer. <h4>Methods: </h4>: This is a cross-sectional study. A direct survey was applied to cancer patients over 277 visits in 2015. Variables including chief complaint for current and last visit, frequency of visits, prima...

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Literature Corpus work: 214935b7-d44d-5315-be48-fd3a8d496f19
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.12632.1

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