Patients presenting to acute care settings with nonspecific complaints (NSCs) are
at high risk of adverse outcomes [
[1]
,
[2]
] and pose diagnostic and prognostic challenges [
[3]
]. The majority of these patients suffers from acute and serious conditions [
[4]
]. Due to the prevalence of chronic disease [
[5]
], nonorganic or functional problems [
[6]
], therapy induced conditions [
[7]
], or acute complications in chronic conditions, several distinct trajectories of
survival may be observed. Allocating NSCs patients into predefined groups may be used
in clinical practice, if the framework can simply, but reliably, categorise NSCs with
different trajectories. Recently, it was hypothesized that the prognosis of NSCs is
likely related to whether or not they are transient, recurrent or persistent [
[8]
].Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: July 10, 2018
Accepted:
June 21,
2018
Received in revised form:
June 20,
2018
Received:
June 14,
2018
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