The accuracy of emergency medicine and surgical residents in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 766-770

  Jo, You Hwan ^a   Kim, Kyuseok ^a   Rhee, Joong Eui ^a   Kim, Tae Yun ^a   Lee, Jin Hee ^a   Kang, Sung Bum ^a   Kim, Duck Woo ^a   Kim, Young Hoon ^a   Lee, Kyoung Ho ^a   Kim, So Yeon ^a   Lee, Christopher C ^b   Singer, Adam J ^b  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESIDENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956571741     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2009.03.017     Document Type: Article

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