Patients who return to the Emergency Department (ED) within 72 h of discharge are often used for ED Quality Assurance efforts, however little is known about the yield of this kind of review and the types of errors it identifies. Our objective was to identify the prevalence, types and severity of errors in these cases.

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Aaronson E, Borczuk P, Benzer T, Mort E, Temin E. 72h returns: A trigger tool for diagnostic error. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. March 2018; 36(3):359-361. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2017.08.019

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