Abdominal pain: A survey of clinically important outcomes for future research

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 485-490

  Mills, Angela M ^a   Dean, Anthony J ^a   Hollander, Judd E ^a   Chen, Esther H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Emergency department

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE HEPATITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; AORTA DISSECTION; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN DISEASE; CANCER GROWTH; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS; COLITIS; COLON OBSTRUCTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DIVERTICULITIS; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDIDYMITIS; FETUS DISTRESS; FOLLOW UP; GASTRITIS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ILEUS; INCOMPLETE ABORTION; KIDNEY VEIN THROMBOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MEDICAL EXPERT; MESENTERIC ARTERY; METASTASIS; MICROVASCULAR ISCHEMIA; OVARY ABSCESS; OVARY CYST; OVARY DISEASE; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PEPTIC ULCER; PROSTATISM; PYELONEPHRITIS; RENAL ARTERY THROMBOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TESTIS TORSION; TORSION; URETER STONE; UTERUS MYOMA; ABDOMINAL PAIN; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953004400     PISSN: 14818035     EISSN: 14818035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1481803500012707     Document Type: Article

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