Determining clinical predictors to identify non‐specific abdominal pain and the added value of laboratory examinations: A prospective derivation study in a paediatric emergency department
Manon Bouënel,
Victoire Lefebvre,
Camille Trouillet
et al.
Abstract:AimTo develop a model to discriminate non‐specific abdominal pain (NSAP) from organic pain in the paediatric emergency department (PED) and evaluate the added value of laboratory markers.MethodsProspective cohort study in an urban French PED including all patients aged ≥4 years with abdominal pain between November 2020 and May 2021. The outcome was the discrimination between NSAP (patients coded to have only “pain” or “constipation”) and organic pain (all other diagnoses) using stepwise backward multivariate l… Show more
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