A 5-year follow up of patients discharged with non-specific abdominal pain: Out of sight, out of mind?

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 395-401

  Banz, V M ^a   Sperisen, O ^a   de Moya, M ^c   Zimmermann, H ^a   Candinas, D ^a   Mougiakakou, S G ^b   Exadaktylos, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Emergency medicine; Prospective study

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE NON SPECIFIC ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; COLON POLYP; CONSTIPATION; CROHN DISEASE; EMERGENCY WARD; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLSTONE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LIVER DISEASE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NUTRITIONAL INTOLERANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859867505     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2010.02288.x     Document Type: Article

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