Complexity of patients with or without infectious disease consultation in tertiary-care hospitals in Germany
C. Meyer-Schwickerath,
C. Weber,
D. Hornuss
et al.
Abstract:Purpose
Patients seen by infectious disease (ID) specialists are more complex compared to patients treated by other subspecialities according to Tonelli et al. (2018). However, larger studies on the complexity of patients related to the involvement of ID consultation services are missing.
Methods
Data of patients being treated in 2015 and 2019 in four different German university hospitals was retrospectively collected. Data were collected from the hospital… Show more
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