[Diagnosis mistake in the emergency room: relation to main symptom at admission, reasons and clinical implications].

Background And Objective: We intended to analyze the relation between the main symptom at hospital admission and the diagnosis mistake, assessing the reasons and clinical implications.

Patients And Method: We analyzed hospitalized patients from the emergency room to the medical wards. We collected: age, sex, time, main symptom at admission, diagnosis at admission and final diagnosis, days of hospitalization and mortality.

[Diagnostic concordance between emergency room and hospitalization in medical patients].

Background: The purpose of this study was to know the concordance of diagnosis between emergency rooms amd hospitalization wards and to analyze the mistake index, the epidemiological characteristics and the main reasons for the mistakes.

Patients And Method: We analyzed hospitalized patients and used a three-level concordance: exact diagnosis (A), syndromical concordance (B) and mistake (C). We compared age, sex, time and days of hospitalization between the groups A+B and C.