An approach to model right iliac fossa pain using pain-only-parameters for screening acute appendicitis

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1491-1502

  Chattopadhyay, Subhagata ^a   Rabhi, Fethi ^b   Acharya, U Rajendra ^c   Joshi, Rohan ^d   Gajendran, Rudhram ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^d MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis (AA); Non appendicitis (NA); Pain confidence score (PCS); Pain only parameters (POP); Right iliac fossa (RIF) pain

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACCURACY; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PAIN PARAMETERS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; RIGHT ILIAC FOSSA PAIN; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; APPENDICITIS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 84864061162     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-010-9610-0     Document Type: Article

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