Survey of Inpatient Consultations with General Internal Medicine Physicians in a Tertiary Hospital: A Retrospective Observational Study

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Figure 1 Flowchart of this study.

Table 1 Main Problems That Prompted Consultation for Diagnosis

Chief Complaints	Total (n=303)
Fever	146 (48.2%)
Abnormal laboratory results	21 (6.9%)
Cause of bacteremia	9 (3.0%)
Elevated CRP without fever	8 (2.6%)
Abdominal pain	8 (2.6%)
Nausea/Vomiting	8 (2.6%)
Anorexia	7 (2.3%)
Altered mental status	7 (2.3%)
Back pain	6 (2.0%)
Diarrhea	5 (1.7%)
Hypoalbuminemia	5 (1.7%)
Others*	73 (24.1%)

Notes: *Other chief complaints are listed in Supplementary Table 1.

Table 2 New Diagnoses After Consultation for Diagnosis for the Cause of Fever

Diagnoses	Number of Diagnoses (n=106)
Infectious diseases	69
Neoplasms	7
Connective tissue disease/Autoinflammatory disease	6
Drug fever	6
Crystal arthritis	6
Tumor fever	2
Thrombosis	2
Iatrogenic adrenocortical insufficiency	1
Organizing pneumonia	1
Cardiac sarcoidosis	1
Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis	1
Erythroderma	1
Mesenteric lymphadenitis	1
Medication overuse headache	1
Toxic epidermal necrolysis	1

Figure 2 International classification of diseases-10 categories of new diagnoses.