Obese patients with abdominal pain presenting to the emergency department do not require more time or resources for evaluation than nonobese patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 778-781

  Platts Mills, Timothy F ^a,b   Burg, Michael D ^a   Snowden, Brandy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University Medical Center Fresno   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Emergency department; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANK SUM TEST; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 22844446119     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.03.522     Document Type: Article

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