TY - JOUR T1 - Childhood non-specific abdominal pain may predict adulthood organic and functional abdominal disease in a small number of patients JF - Evidence Based Medicine JO - Evid Based Med SP - 190 LP - 190 DO - 10.1136/ebmed-2016-110463 VL - 21 IS - 5 AU - Hannu Paajanen Y1 - 2016/10/01 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/21/5/190.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Thornton GC, Goldacre MJ, Goldacre R, et al. Diagnostic outcomes following childhood non-specific abdominal pain: a record-linkage study. Arch Dis Child 2015;0:1–5OpenUrl.Abdominal symptoms and pain are encountered in 5–10% of primary healthcare visits both in children and adults. The most common diagnoses in the emergency wards are non-specific abdominal pain (NSAP) and acute appendicitis accounting for 34–50% and 20–30% of all cases, respectively.1–3 NSAP implies short-lived, self-limited, acute abdominal pain for which no serious or definite organic cause is ever established. NSAP is common exclusion diagnosis for abdominal discomfort in childhood.An NSAP cohort of 268 623 children aged 0–16 years was reviewed from English Hospital Episode Statistics from 1999 to 2011.The … ER -