[Clinical processes in a high resolution clinic of specialist outpatient clinics].

Objectives: The high resolution clinic (HRC) is an outpatient care process by which treatment and diagnosis are established, recorded, and completed in a single day. The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which patients with medical conditions may benefit from a single consultation system.

Material And Methods: A descriptive study of 795 first visit events, randomly selected as high-resolution consultations in cardiology, gastroenterology, internal medicine, and chest diseases.

Is time to search the Wells Score 4.0?

Background: Wells score for deep vein thrombosis presents problems for implementation in the hospital emergencies, mainly due to the complexity of its enforcement.

Objective: To assess whether the inclusion of D-dimer as a predictor might lead to a simplification of this clinical decision rule.

Patients And Methods: A database of deep vein thrombosis patients was studied by logistic regression model in which the 10 predictors in the Wells score and the dimer D were included.