Clinicians Don’t Always Agree On Physical Exam Findings

Clinicians Don’t Always Agree On Physical Exam Findings

A prospective multicenter study that compared physical examination findings in children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) found that 2 clinicians examining the same patient may not always agree on whether certain physical findings are or are not present during an exam. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, included 252 patients aged 3 months–17 years with CAP evaluated at 7 pediatric emergency departments. Two clinicians independently examined each patient within 60 minutes. After the exam findings …

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Abstracts in Urgent Care: July/August, 2008

It’s not Easy for ED Patients to Get Follow-Up Care Key point: Only 23% of attempts to schedule an outpatient follow-up appointment were successful in this study of callers posing as ED patients without primary care physicians. Citation: Vieth TL, Rhodes KV. Nonprice barriers to ambulatory care after an emergency department visit. Ann Emerg Med. 2008;51(5):607-613.  Almost half of emergency department patients are dis- charged with instructions to follow up with an outpatient clinic or …

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