Ruling out Appendicitis in Children: Can We Use Clinical Prediction Rules?

Ruling out Appendicitis in Children: Can We Use Clinical Prediction Rules?

Purpose To identify available clinical prediction rules (CPRs) and investigate their ability to rule out appendicitis in children presenting with abdominal pain at the emergency department, and accordingly select CPRs that could be useful in a future prospective cohort study. Methods A literature se...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of gastrointestinal surgery 2019-10, Vol.23 (10), p.2027-2048
Hauptverfasser: van Amstel, Paul, Gorter, Ramon R., van der Lee, Johanna H., Cense, Huib A., Bakx, Roel, Heij, Hugo A.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Abdominal Pain - etiology
Acute Disease
Adolescent
Appendicitis
Appendicitis - diagnosis
Child
Clinical Decision Rules
Emergency Service, Hospital
Female
Gastroenterology
Gastrointestinal surgery
Health risk assessment
Hospitals, Teaching
Humans
Likelihood Functions
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Original
Original Article
Patients
Retrospective Studies
Surgery
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Zusammenfassung:Purpose To identify available clinical prediction rules (CPRs) and investigate their ability to rule out appendicitis in children presenting with abdominal pain at the emergency department, and accordingly select CPRs that could be useful in a future prospective cohort study. Methods A literature search was conducted to identify available CPRs. These were subsequently tested in a historical cohort from a general teaching hospital, comprising all children (
ISSN:1091-255X
1873-4626
DOI:10.1007/s11605-018-3997-1