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ACUTE APPENDICITIS IN CHILDHOOD: A FEASIBILITY STUDY OF COMPUTER‐ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS
Author(s) -
Burton IanD.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1987.tb01296.x
Subject(s) - medicine , laparotomy , appendicitis , acute appendicitis , general surgery , intensive care medicine , surgery
The case records of 169 children admitted to hospital with suspected appendicitis were subjected to bayesian analysis in order to determine whether computer‐assisted diagnosis would be likely to reduce the negative laparotomy rate. The results suggest that the negative laparotomy rate could be reduced from 27% to 18% if computer‐assisted diagnosis was used.