European journal of emergency medicine : official journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine
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Observational Study
Older age and risk for delayed abdominal pain care in the emergency department.
Suboptimal acute pain care has been previously reported to be associated with demographic characteristics. ⋯ 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.