Race and acute abdominal pain in a pediatric emergency department

Pediatrics

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1098-1106

  Caperell, Kerry ^a   Pitetti, Raymond ^b   Cross, Keith P ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Emergency medicine; Epidemiology; Racial differences; Racial disparities

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; INFUSION FLUID; KETOROLAC; NARCOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING;

EID: 84878726324     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-3672     Document Type: Article

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