Trends in visits, imaging, and diagnosis for emergency department abdominal pain presentations in the United States, 2007–2019
Wu R, Adjei‐Poku M, Kelz R, Peck G, Hwang U, Cappola A, Friedman A. Trends in visits, imaging, and diagnosis for emergency department abdominal pain presentations in the United States, 2007–2019. Academic Emergency Medicine 2024, 32: 20-31. PMID: 39313946, PMCID: PMC11726162, DOI: 10.1111/acem.15017.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOlder adultsAbdominal painED visitsComputed tomographyNational Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care SurveyEmergency departmentCT scanTest positivityAdult ED visitsPercentage of visitsAbdominal pain presentingNationally representative dataMiddle-aged adultsAbdominal CT scanCare SurveyPain presentationsAge-specificIncrease imaging ratesPractice patternsSurgical diagnosisAbdominal imagingDiagnostic pathwayRepresentative dataAcute pathologyVisits
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