Systematic quantitative overviews of the literature to determine the value of diagnostic tests for predicting acute appendicitis: study protocol

Background Suspected acute appendicitis is the most frequent cause for emergency operations in visceral surgery worldwide. In approximately twenty percent of all cases however, the diagnosis is incorrect and patients undergo surgery without having acute appendicitis. Operations of bland appendices p...
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Autor*in:

Bachmann, Lucas M [verfasserIn]

Bischof, Dominique B

Bischofberger, Stephan A

Bonani, Marco G

Osann, Franziska M

Steurer, Johann

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E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2002

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False Positive Rate

Acute Appendicitis

Pretest Probability

Diagnostic Odds Ratio

Summary Receiver Operating Characteristic

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© Bachmann et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2002. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.

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Enthalten in: BMC surgery - London : BioMed Central, 2001, 2(2002), 1 vom: 10. Apr.

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volume:2 ; year:2002 ; number:1 ; day:10 ; month:04

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DOI / URN:

10.1186/1471-2482-2-2

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SPR028479459

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