Does unplanned emergency department revisit within 72 hours to a secondary teaching referral hospital in Taiwan?
Unplanned ED revisits are associated with medical errors in prognosis, treatment, follow-up care, and information. Differentiation between the natural course of a disease, suboptimal therapy, over-anxious reaction of the patient, and medical errors is difficult. Although this study indicates that most revisits are illness-related, further prospective studies are needed to evaluate the most common and the most serious causes of revisits to see if improvements can be made.
Methylation of DELC1 promoter may be a valuable predictor for recurrence in Chinese patients with gastric cancer.