Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Jun 2004
A casemix model for estimating the impact of hospital access block on the emergency department.
To determine the ED activity and costs resulting from access block. ⋯ The UDG system significantly underestimates the activity in EDs experiencing marked access block.
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We present an infant with generalized palpable purpura, arthritis and fever, whose findings were atypical for classic childhood Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP). By describing the clinical symptoms and prognostic differences seen in infants versus school age children, we encourage physicians to be aware of infantile HSP in their differential diagnosis when they encounter a non-toxic infant with generalized purpura.