Right Iliac Fossa Pain Treatment (RIFT) Study: Protocol for an international, multicentre, prospective observational study

BMJ Open

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Nepogodiev, Dmitri ^a   Matthews, Jacob H ^a   Morley, Gabriella L ^a   Bhanderi, Shivam ^a   Jain, Sarus ^a   Mohamed, Imran ^a   Amuthalingam, Thuvarahan ^a   Tyler, Robert ^a   Glasbey, James C ^a   Wilkin, Richard ^a   Bhangu, Aneel ^a   Griffiths, Ewen ^a   Pinkney, Thomas ^a   Gee, Oliver ^a   Morton, Dion ^a   Pata, Francesco ^a   Pellino, Gianluca ^a   Farina, Valeria ^a   Gavagna, Laura ^a   Naccari, Pietro Maria ^a   Pasquali, Sandro ^a   Sensi, Bruno ^a   Sgrò, Alessandro ^a   Simioni, Andrea ^a   Blanco Colino, Ruth ^a   Frasson, Matteo ^a   Soares, Antonio Sampaio ^a   Blencowe, Natalie ^a   Bolton, Will ^a   Chapman, Stephen ^a   Bradshaw, Catherine ^a   Harris, Grant ^a   Haddow, James B ^a   Sahnan, Kapil ^a   Mason, John ^a   McCain, Scott ^a   Milgrom, David ^a   Mohamed, Saleem Noor ^a   No'Brien, James ^a   Pearce, Jack ^a   Rabie, Mohammed ^a   Nana, Gaël R ^a   Sarmah, Panchali ^a   Jamieson, Nigel ^a   more..

^a NONE

Author keywords

abdominal pain; appendicectomy; appendicitis; right iliac fossa pain; surgery

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ALVARADO SCORE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SCORE; ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESEARCH ETHICS; RIGHT ILIAC FOSSA PAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDATION STUDY; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; CLINICAL AUDIT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; ILIAC BONE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PELVIC PAIN; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNCERTAINTY; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CLINICAL AUDIT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILIUM; INFLAMMATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; PELVIC PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 85052004705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017574     Document Type: Article

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