Acute abdominal pain in the elderly
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Thomas F Bugliosi; Thomas D Meloy; Larry F Vukov
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Article
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1990
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Study objectives: To determine the incidences of both specific diagnosis and surgical diseases in patients more than 65 years old who present to the emergency department with nontraumatic abdominal pain of less than one week's duration, and to determine the ED staff's ability to diagnose and triage