The Duke Abdominal Assessment Scale: Initial experience

Expert Review of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 569-574

  Hollingsworth, Caroline L ^a   Rice, Henry E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

abdominal radiography; communication; necrotizing enterocolitis; pediatric radiology; standardized reporting lexicon

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUKE ABDOMINAL ASSESSMENT SCALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77958053340     PISSN: 17474124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/egh.10.52     Document Type: Review

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