Title: A descriptive study of 100 emergency department patients with abdominal pain
Abstract: ABSTRACT One hundred consecutive patients with abdominal pain attending the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Royal Hobart Hospital were studied. There was a bimodal age distribution, with peaks in the 10–30 and 60–80 year groups. Admitted patients were likely to be older, and were more likely to present in working hours. When compared with later diagnosis, the emergency department diagnosis was “correct” in 75% of cases. No patient admitted with “unspecified abdominal pain” was later diagnosed more definitively. The findings suggest that one may be reasonably confident of a diagnosis made in the emergency department in patients with abdominal pain.
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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