Validation and refinement of a prediction rule to identify children at low risk for acute appendicitis

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 166, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 725-731

  Kharbanda, Anupam B ^a,j   Dudley, Nanette C ^b   Bajaj, Lalit ^c   Stevenson, Michelle D ^d   Macias, Charles G ^e   Mittal, Manoj K ^f   Bachur, Richard G ^k   Bennett, Jonathan E ^g   Sinclair, Kelly ^h   Huang, Craig ⁱ   Dayan, Peter S ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^k BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; JUMPING; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WALKING;

EID: 84865593331     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2011.1919     Document Type: Article

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