Prospective validation of a current algorithm including bedside US performed by emergency physicians for patients with acute flank pain suspected for renal colic

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 341-344

  Kartal, M ^a   Eray, Oktay ^a   Erdogru, T ^a   Yilmaz, S ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; KIDNEY COLIC; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URINALYSIS; UROLITHIASIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ACUTE DISEASE; COLIC; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EVALUATION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; KIDNEY DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; COLIC; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URINARY CALCULI;

EID: 33745004811     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2005.028589     Document Type: Article

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