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Hepatitis
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA.
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
|November 1, 1996
Abstract:
Hepatitis is a diagnosis that can easily be missed by the physician. The morbidity of this disease is significant when one takes into account all the cases that either do not have a typical presentation or are misdiagnosed. The emergency physician bears substantial responsibility in the diagnosis and intervention of patients with hepatitis, and needs to develop a systematic way of approaching the patient with a viral syndrome or other vague complaints that will allow appropriate consideration of this diagnosis.