Mandatory imaging cuts costs and reduces the rate of unnecessary surgeries in the diagnostic work-up of patients suspected of having appendicitis

European Radiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1464-1470

  Lahaye, M J ^a   Lambregts, D M J ^a   Mutsaers, E ^a   Essers, B A B ^a   Breukink, S ^a   Cappendijk, V C ^b   Beets, G L ^a   Beets Tan, R G H ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b JEROEN BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Diagnosis; Health care costs; Imaging; Operative surgical procedures

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NETHERLANDS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NETHERLANDS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939959189     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-014-3531-0     Document Type: Article

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