Ignoring non-specific abdominal pain in emergency department patients may be related to decreased quality of life: A follow up of an underestimated problem

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 141, Issue FEBRUARY, 2011, Pages

  Banz, Vanessa M ^a   Paul, Katrin ^a   De Moya, Marc ^b   Zimmermann, Heinz ^a   Candinas, Daniel ^a   Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Emergency medicine; Pain; Prospective survey

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEOPLASM; NONSPECIFIC ABDOMINAL PAIN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 36; WELLBEING; ABDOMINAL PAIN; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SWITZERLAND;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79955810838     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13167     Document Type: Article

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