Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Advance Praise
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Prologue
- Section 1 Administration
- Section 2 Clinical Setting and Education
- Section 3 New Developments
- Section 4 Clinical
- Section 5 Disasters Including Pandemics
- Section 6 Financial
- Section 7 Observation Medicine Regulations and Guidelines
- Section 8 Observation Medicine Administration
- Section 9 International
- Section 10 Administrative Policies
- Section 11 Protocols
- Section 12 Order Sets
- Index
50 - Abdominal Pain
from Subsection 4I - Clinical – Gastrointestinal
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 June 2025
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Advance Praise
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Prologue
- Section 1 Administration
- Section 2 Clinical Setting and Education
- Section 3 New Developments
- Section 4 Clinical
- Section 5 Disasters Including Pandemics
- Section 6 Financial
- Section 7 Observation Medicine Regulations and Guidelines
- Section 8 Observation Medicine Administration
- Section 9 International
- Section 10 Administrative Policies
- Section 11 Protocols
- Section 12 Order Sets
- Index
Summary
For abdominal pain patients it is often difficult upon presentation in the emergency to make the diagnosis. In abdominal pain patients, observation improves diagnostic performance, cost effectiveness, patient satisfaction and patient outcomes. Patients can receive definitive tests safely as outpatients. Observation helps the clinician better discriminate which patients with abdominal pain have disease,
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- Observation MedicinePrinciples and Protocols, pp. 303 - 306Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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