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Discharging Patients After Overnight Observation Stays

Published on Wed May 21, 2014

Question: A patient presents in the ED with unspecified chest pain. After a complete work-up, the physician can't be sure whether the patient is having a heart attack. He decides to place the patient in observation care to determine if the patient needs admission. The physician observes the patient for 18 hours beginning at 1 p.m. on day 1, and discharges [...]
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