Ultrasonography is the most common test used in the emergency department for the diagnosis of biliary colic and acute cholecystitis (see the image below). This imaging modality may be diagnostic for biliary disease, help exclude biliary disease, or may reveal alternative causes of the patient's symptoms.
What group of women was initially targeted to join the labor force? young unmarried women. military wives. married women with no children. married women with older children.
According to the Current Population Survey, there were 18.4 million workers age 55 in the labor force in 2000, a number that the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects to 31.9 million by 2015. Older workers will comprise nearly 20% of the total labor force by 2015.