title: Computers and the diagnosis of acute abdominal pain.
abstract: One per cent of hospital admissions are for acute abdominal pain. The first doctor to see the patient is usually junior and his diagnostic accuracy is likely to be less than 50%. Computer-aided diagnostic accuracy rises to over 70% and thus unnecessary admissions and unnecessary operations are reduced.
authors.affiliation: Whipps Cross Hospital, London.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wellwood
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Spiegelhalter
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006801:Humans; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D010343:Patient Admission; D006113:United Kingdom