Prediction rule for etiology of vague abdominal pain in the emergency room: Utility for imaging triage

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 552-556

  Roth, Chris ^a   Tello, Richard ^a   Sutherland, Kenny ^a   Ptak, Thomas ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; APPENDICITIS; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY WARD; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PERITONEUM CELL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME;

EID: 0036786728     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-200210000-00003     Document Type: Article

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