The impact of an acute care surgery clinical care pathway for suspected appendicitis on the use of CT in the emergency department

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 194-198

  Ball, Chad G ^a   Dixon, Elijah ^a   MacLean, Anthony R ^a   Kaplan, Gilaad G ^a   Nicholson, Lynn ^a   Sutherland, Francis R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL PATHWAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TIME; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALBERTA; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIAGE;

EID: 84904305038     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: 14882310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cjs.019912     Document Type: Article

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