Imaging strategies for detection of urgent conditions in patients with acute abdominal pain: Diagnostic accuracy study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 339, Issue 7711, 2009, Pages 29-33

  Laméris, Wytze ^f   Van Randen, Adrienne ^f   Wouter Van Es, H ^b   Van Heesewijk, Johannes P M ^b   Van Ramshorst, Bert ^b   Bouma, Wim H ^c   Ten Hove, Wim ^c   Van Leeuwen, Maarten S ^d   Van Keulen, Esteban M ^e   Dijkgraaf, Marcel G W ^a   Bossuyt, Patrick M M ^a   Boermeester, Marja A ^a   Stoker, Jaap ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c GELRE HOSPITALS   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e Tergooi Hospitals   (Netherlands)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; EMERGENCY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARD;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650094614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b2431     Document Type: Article

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