False‐negative and False‐positive Errors in Abdominal Pain Evaluation Failure to Diagnose Acute Appendicitis and Unnecessary Surgery

. Objectives: To test the hypothesis that physician errors (failure to diagnose appendicitis at initial evaluation) correlate with adverse outcome. The authors also postulated that physician errors would correlate with delays in surgery, delays in surgery would correlate with adverse outcomes, and p...

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Published in:	Academic emergency medicine Vol. 7; no. 11; pp. 1244 - 1255
Main Authors:	Graff, Louis, Russell, John, Seashore, John, Tate, Jan, Elwell, Ann, Prete, Mark, Werdmann, Mike, Maag, Rachel, Krivenko, Charles, Radford, Martha
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2000
Subjects:	abdominal pain Abdominal Pain - diagnosis Acute Disease Adolescent Adult adverse events Aged appendicitis Appendicitis - diagnosis Appendicitis - surgery Child Child, Preschool Clinical Competence Cohort Studies Connecticut diagnosis Diagnosis, Differential Diagnostic Errors - statistics & numerical data Digestive System Surgical Procedures - statistics & numerical data Emergency Service, Hospital - standards False Negative Reactions False Positive Reactions false‐negative false‐positive Female Humans Incidence Logistic Models Male Middle Aged Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) physician errors Probability Retrospective Studies Risk Factors Statistics, Nonparametric Unnecessary Procedures - statistics & numerical data
ISSN:	1069-6563, 1553-2712
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