Abdominal imaging utilization in the emergency department: trends over two decades
Open Access
- 27 April 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in International Journal of Emergency Medicine
- Vol. 4 (1) , 19
Abstract
To assess patterns of use of abdominal imaging in the emergency department (ED) from 1990 to 2009.Keywords
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