Revista clínica espanõla
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Revista clínica espanõla · May 2014
Observational StudyAnalysis of in-hospital consultations with the department of internal medicine.
An important but understudied activity of the departments of internal medicine (IM) is the in-hospital consultations. We analyzed the requests for in-hospital consultation with IM and the potential differences between the consultations of medical and surgical departments. ⋯ In-hospital consultations directed at IM are frequently duplicate, are not well directed at the appropriate department and their urgency is incorrectly assessed. These characteristics are similar for the consultations with medical and surgical departments.