Prescription of medication before and after acute admission with nonspecific abdominal pain

Background Abdominal pain is among the most common symptoms leading to referral to emergency departments in Denmark. Many of these patients are discharged without a specific diagnosis despite thorough work-up. We set out to assess the drugs prescribed to these patients in order to identify preconditions prior to admission based on their pharmaceutical treatment. This aims to generate hypotheses of admission causes derived from the drugs the patients have been prescribed since knowledge of drugs consumption patterns can improve treatment regimes.