A clinical decision rule to establish the diagnosis of acute diverticulitis at the emergency department

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 896-904

  Laméris, Wytze ^a   Van Randen, Adrienne ^a   Van Gulik, Thomas M ^a   Busch, Olivier R C ^a   Winkelhagen, Jasper ^b   Bossuyt, Patrick M M ^a   Stoker, Jaap ^a   Boermeester, Marja A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GELRE HOSPITALS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute diverticulitis; Clinical decision rule; Diagnostic accuracy

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85047681261     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181d98d86     Document Type: Article

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