Older age and risk for delayed abdominal pain care in the emergency department.
Ben BloomChristie L FritzShivani GuptaJason PottImogen SkeneRaine Astin-ChamberlainMohammad AliSarah A ThomasStephen H ThomasPublished in: European journal of emergency medicine : official journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine (2024)
In a consecutive series of patients with abdominal pain, advancing age was the only demographic variable associated with prolonged time to initial analgesia. Older patients were found to have a linearly increasing, age-dependent risk for prolonged wait for pain care.