Talk:Acute on chronic

Lead

This is kind of pointless because this page will likely become a redirect by the sounds of things, but I point out that we don't actually have an explanation of what "acute on chronic" means. Need a source to say this ofc, would be good to get something like this in the lead:

"...a descriptive term in medicine, referring to an acute exacerbation of a chronic condition,(ref) and can be applied to a variety of conditions, including:"

Re the usually applied to liver failure, I put that in because most of the pubmed search results using the term were about liver failure, but agree we need a source to say that it usually refers to this, otherwise is technically OR I suppose. Lesion (talk) 22:55, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Merge into Acute (medicine)?

As suggested on the WP:MED talk page, shall we merge this into Acute (medicine)? I think it makes sense: both articles have very little material in them, and "acute on chronic" is just one flavor of "acute". Klortho (talk) 03:59, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

• Merge-- agree, but some mention of this phrase should go to chronic (medicine) and inflammation too. Lesion (talk) 09:26, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

It might be appropriate, assuming that this content is moved to more than one page, that this page is left as a DAB, pointing to Acute (medicine) and inflammation. Lesion (talk) 11:58, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

• Merge agree. -- Scray (talk) 11:22, 7 June 2013 (UTC)