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.
Women in the 25-44 age category will make up 21.1 percent of the workforce of 2006, down from 24.2 percent in 1996. These figures incorporate an expected rise in the labor force participation rates of 25- to 44-year-old women from 76 percent to 79 percent.