Can lab data be used to reduce abdominal computed tomography (CT) usage in young adults presenting to the emergency department with nontraumatic abdominal pain?
Scheinfeld
Meir H
MH
Department of Radiology, Division of Abdominal Imaging, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, 111 E 210th Street, Bronx, NY 10467, USA. meirscheinfeld@hotmail.com
Mahadevia
Soham
S
Stein
Evan G
EG
Freeman
Katherine
K
Rozenblit
Alla M
AM
D015746:Abdominal Pain; D000328:Adult; D001774:Blood Chemical Analysis; D019992:Databases as Topic; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000706:statistics & numerical data