Population
1166 patients (1190 emergency admissions) presenting with abdominal pain to a general surgical unit.
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30-day
Authors
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High mortality in emergency abdominal admissions rises sharply after age 60; hypothesis-generating for age-stratified risk models.
In an audit of emergency admissions for abdominal pain, mortality was highly concentrated in older patients and those with ruptured aortic aneurysms or perforated peptic ulcers.
T T Irvin (1989) studied this question.
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