Pediatric abdominal pain: Use of imaging in the Emergency Department in the United States from 1999 to 2007

Radiology

Volumn 263, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 778-785

  Hryhorczuk, Anastasia L ^a   Mannix, Rebekah C ^a   Taylor, George A ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INSURANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862495076     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12111726     Document Type: Article

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