Optimizing imaging in suspected appendicitis (OPTIMAP-study): A multicenter diagnostic accuracy study of MRI in patients with suspected acute appendicitis. Study Protocol

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Leeuwenburgh, Marjolein M N ^a   Laméris, Wytze ^a   van Randen, Adrienne ^a   Bossuyt, Patrick M M ^a   Boermeester, Marja A ^a   Stoker, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPULATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; APPENDICITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NETHERLANDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77958011657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-10-19     Document Type: Article

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