Comparing care choices for urgent symptoms in clinics and emergency
This study compares how walk-in clinics, primary care offices, and emergency departments manage common urgent problems like diarrhea, sore throat, cough, ear problems, urinary symptoms, pain, and fever. It may help improve which care setting works best for the right patient at the right time.
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Who can take part
- Be age 18 or older
- Be able to do the visit by in-person or telemedicine with an emergency department, walk-in clinic, or your primary care practice
- Be ambulatory during the visit (well enough to move and participate while not hospitalized)
- Have one of these new urgent complaints: acute diarrhea, sore throat, nasal congestion, thick/pus-like nasal discharge, earache or ear drainage, shortness of breath, cough, thick/pus-like phlegm, muscle aches, loss of smell (anosmia), altered taste (dysgeusia), burning urine, urinary urgency/frequency, painful urination (dysuria), limb injury, neck/mid/back pain, or fever
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