Can Surgical Registrars Accurately Identify the Urgent from the Non-Urgent Patient Presenting with Acute Abdominal Pain?

Background: Acute abdominal pain is a common surgical presentation with a wide range of causes. Differentiating urgent patients from non-urgent patients is important to optimise patient outcomes and the use of hospital resources. The aim of this study was to determine how accurately urgent and non-urgent patients presenting with abdominal pain can be identified.