A patient reports epigastric pain that occurs after meals and often awakens the patient at night. The nurse would ask additional assessment questions about which disorder?
1. Urinary tract infection
2. Duodenal ulcer
3. Gastric ulcer
4. Intussusception
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Rationale 1: Epigastric pain would not be a common assessment finding in urinary tract infection.
Rationale 2: Pain from a duodenal ulcer often is postprandial and awakens the patient at night.
Rationale 3: Pain from a gastric ulcer is often precipitated by food.
Rationale 4: Intussusception is a disorder of infants and is not seen in adults.
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