Changing opioid use for right lower quadrant abdominal pain in the emergency department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1216-1220

  Neighbor, Martha L ^a,b   Baird, Carina H ^a   Kohn, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Analgesia; Computed tomography; Management; Opioid; Pain

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG UTILIZATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOTICS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAN FRANCISCO;

EID: 27944441375     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.07.024     Document Type: Article

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