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Validation of the Clinical Frailty Scale for Prediction of Thirty-Day Mortality in the Emergency Department by Kaeppeli, Tobias, Rueegg, Marco, Dreher-Hummel, Thomas, Brabrand, Mikkel, Kabell-Nissen, Søren, Carpenter, Christopher R., Bingisser, Roland, Nickel, Christian H.

“…We validate the Clinical Frailty Scale by examining its independent predictive validity for 30-day mortality, ICU admission, and hospitalization and by…”
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The last decade of symptom-oriented research in emergency medicine: triage, work-up, and disposition by Bingisser, Roland, Nickel, Christian H

“…As a result of the ever-increasing use of imaging and clinical chemistry, symptom-oriented research has lost ground in many areas of clinical medicine. In…”
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Medical Team Evaluation: Effect on Emergency Department Waiting Time and Length of Stay by Lauks, Juliane, Mramor, Blaz, Baumgartl, Klaus, Maier, Heinrich, Nickel, Christian H, Bingisser, Roland

“…Emergency Departments (ED) are trying to alleviate crowding using various interventions. We assessed the effect of an alternative model of care, the Medical…”
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Mimics and chameleons of COVID-19 by Nickel, Christian Hans, Bingisser, Roland

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The role of copeptin as a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker for risk stratification in the emergency department by Nickel, Christian H, Bingisser, Roland, Morgenthaler, Nils G

“…The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is activated in response to stress. One of the activated hypothalamic hormones is arginine vasopressin, a hormone…”
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The clinical frailty scale predicts 1‐year mortality in emergency department patients aged 65 years and older by Rueegg, Marco, Nissen, Søren Kabell, Brabrand, Mikkel, Kaeppeli, Tobias, Dreher, Thomas, Carpenter, Christopher R., Bingisser, Roland, Nickel, Christian H.

“…Objective To validate the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) for prediction of 1‐year all‐cause mortality in the emergency department (ED) and compare its…”
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Age, comorbidity, frailty status: effects on disposition and resource allocation during the COVID-19 pandemic by Nickel, Christian Hans, Rueegg, Marco, Pargger, Hans, Bingisser, Roland

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Screening for elder mistreatment in a Swiss emergency department: a prospective cohort study by Riedel, Henk B, Espejo, Tanguy, Dreher-Hummel, Thomas, Bingisser, Roland, Nickel, Christian H

“…The mistreatment of older adults is a global and complex problem with varying prevalence. As there are no data on the prevalence of elder mistreatment in…”
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At Risk of Undertriage? Testing the Performance and Accuracy of the Emergency Severity Index in Older Emergency Department Patients by Grossmann, Florian F., MNS, RN, Zumbrunn, Thomas, PhD, Frauchiger, Anna, Delport, Karen, MD, Bingisser, Roland, MD, Nickel, Christian H., MD

“…Study objective We test predictive validity, interrater reliability, and diagnostic accuracy of the Emergency Severity Index in older emergency department (ED)…”
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Evaluation of copeptin and commonly used laboratory parameters for the differential diagnosis of profound hyponatraemia in hospitalized patients: ‘The Co‐MED Study by Nigro, Nicole, Winzeler, Bettina, Suter‐Widmer, Isabelle, Schuetz, Philipp, Arici, Birsen, Bally, Martina, Blum, Claudine A., Nickel, Christian H., Bingisser, Roland, Bock, Andreas, Huber, Andreas, Müller, Beat, Christ‐Crain, Mirjam

“…Summary Objective Hyponatraemia is common and its differential diagnosis is challenging. Commonly used diagnostic algorithms have limited diagnostic accuracy…”
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How should nonspecific complaints be defined? Comment to: “nonspecific complaints (NSCs) in the emergency department” by Bingisser, Roland, Nickel, Christian H

“…[...]the authors did not present any definition of nonspecific complaints, but included studies using varying definitions from very different settings, such as…”
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Cross-sectoral inter-rater reliability of the clinical frailty scale - a Danish translation and validation study by Nissen, Søren Kabell, Fournaise, Anders, Lauridsen, Jørgen T, Ryg, Jesper, Nickel, Christian H, Gudex, Claire, Brabrand, Mikkel, Andersen-Ranberg, Karen

“…Focus on frailty status has become increasingly important when determining care plans within and across health care sectors. A standardized frailty measure…”
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SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a tri-national urban area is dominated by a B.1 lineage variant linked to a mass gathering event by Stange, Madlen, Mari, Alfredo, Roloff, Tim, Seth-Smith, Helena Mb, Schweitzer, Michael, Brunner, Myrta, Leuzinger, Karoline, Søgaard, Kirstine K, Gensch, Alexander, Tschudin-Sutter, Sarah, Fuchs, Simon, Bielicki, Julia, Pargger, Hans, Siegemund, Martin, Nickel, Christian H, Bingisser, Roland, Osthoff, Michael, Bassetti, Stefano, Schneider-Sliwa, Rita, Battegay, Manuel, Hirsch, Hans H, Egli, Adrian

“…The first case of SARS-CoV-2 in Basel, Switzerland was detected on February 26th 2020. We present a phylogenetic study to explore viral introduction and…”
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Emergency department patients with weakness or fatigue: Can physicians predict their outcomes at the front door? A prospective observational study by Herzog, Stefan M, Jenny, Mirjam A, Nickel, Christian H, Nieves Ortega, Ricardo, Bingisser, Roland

“…Generalized weakness and fatigue are underexplored symptoms in emergency medicine. Triage tools often underestimate patients presenting to the emergency…”
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Epidemiology and precision of SARS‐CoV‐2 detection following lockdown and relaxation measures by Leuzinger, Karoline, Gosert, Rainer, Søgaard, Kirstine K., Naegele, Klaudia, Bielicki, Julia, Roloff, Tim, Bingisser, Roland, Nickel, Christian H., Khanna, Nina, Sutter, Sarah Tschudin, Widmer, Andreas F., Rentsch, Katharina, Pargger, Hans, Siegemund, Martin, Stolz, Daiana, Tamm, Michael, Bassetti, Stefano, Osthoff, Michael, Battegay, Manuel, Egli, Adrian, Hirsch, Hans H.

“…Objectives Detecting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) is key to the clinical and epidemiological assessment of CoVID‐19. We…”
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Throughput delays: causes, predictors, and outcomes - observational cohort in a Swiss emergency department by Arnold, Isabelle, Busch, Jeannette-Marie, Terhalle, Lukas, Nickel, Christian H, Bingisser, Roland

“…Optimal throughput times in emergency departments can be adjudicated by emergency physicians. Emergency physicians can also define causes of delays during…”
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Validation of a Simple Score for Mortality Prediction in a Cohort of Unselected Emergency Patients by Busch, Jeannette-Marie, Arnold, Isabelle, Kellett, John, Brabrand, Mikkel, Bingisser, Roland, Nickel, Christian H.

“…Background. Prognostication is an important component of medical decision-making. A patients’ general prognosis can be difficult to measure. The Simple…”
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Reproductive number of the COVID-19 epidemic in Switzerland with a focus on the Cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft by Scire, Jeremie, Nadeau, Sarah, Vaughan, Timothy, Brupbacher, Gavin, Fuchs, Simon, Sommer, Jürg, Koch, Katrin N, Misteli, Reto, Mundorff, Lukas, Götz, Thomas, Eichenberger, Tobias, Quinto, Carlos, Savic, Miodrag, Meienberg, Andrea, Burkard, Thilo, Mayr, Michael, Meier, Christoph A, Widmer, Andreas, Kuehl, Richard, Egli, Adrian, Hirsch, Hans H, Bassetti, Stefano, Nickel, Christian H, Rentsch, Katharina S, Kübler, Werner, Bingisser, Roland, Battegay, Manuel, Tschudin-Sutter, Sarah, Stadler, Tanja

“…The reproductive number in Switzerland was between 1.5 and 2 during the first third of March, and has consistently decreased to around 1. After the…”
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Diagnoses and mortality among prehospital emergency patients calling 112 with unclear problems: a population-based cohort study from Denmark by Ibsen, Stine, Dam-Huus, Karoline Bjerg, Nickel, Christian H, Christensen, Erika Frischknecht, Søvsø, Morten Breinholt

“…Patients calling for an emergency ambulance and assessed as presenting with 'unclear problem' account for a considerable part of all emergency calls. Previous…”
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Transporting Clinical Tools to New Settings: Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Emergency Severity Index in German by Grossmann, Florian F., MNS, RN, Nickel, Christian H., MD, Christ, Michael, MD, Schneider, Kristian, RN, Spirig, Rebecca, PhD, RN, Bingisser, Roland, MD

“…Study objective To date, no German triage tool with proven reliability and validity exists. The goal of this project is to translate and culturally adapt the…”
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