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Pain

The association between insurance status and diagnostic imaging for acute abdominal pain among emergency department patients in the United States, 2005–2014

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Pages 1365-1370 | Received 28 Aug 2018, Accepted 18 Feb 2019, Published online: 26 Mar 2019

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