Research Article
Validation of the Diagnostic Score for Acute Lower Abdominal Pain in Women of Reproductive Age
Table 2
Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients in the development data set and validation data set.
| | Characteristics | Development () | Validation () |
| | Age (year) | | | | Mean (SD) | 29.9 (10.7) | 29.4 (10.3) | | Single (%) | 51.1 | 56.0 | | Duration of pain (hr) | | | | Mean (SD) | 35.4 (41.4) | 36.9 (47.2) | | Shifting of pain (%) | 29.3 | 16.6 | | Nausea and vomiting (%) | 43.4 | 42.7 | | Abnormal vaginal bleeding (%) | 5.7 | 4.6 | | Diarrhea (%) | 8.5 | 8.9 | | Temperature ≥37.5°C (%) | 28.3 | 35.3 | | Pulse rate (/min) | | | | Mean (SD) | 89.6 (16.1) | 89.7 (14.7) | | Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) | | | | Mean (SD) | 119.6 (16.6) | 122.2 (16.6) | | RLQ tender (%) | 91.9 | 91.7 | | LLQ tender (%) | 12.7 | 18.5 | | Guarding/rebound tenderness (%) | 55.7 | 54.0 | | Hematocrit (%) | | | | Mean (SD) | 37.0 (4.9) | 36.5 (4.6) | | WBC (/μL) | | | | Mean (SD) | 13266.1 (4928.0) | 12811.3 (4639.4) | | Neutrophil (%) | | | | ≥75 (%) | 56.9 | 62.3 | | Pregnant/positive pregnancy test (%) | 10.5 | 12.6 |
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