APPRAISE DIRECTNESS

APPRAISE DIRECTNESS
• COMPARE AND CONTRAST HISTO-PATHOLOGY
FINDINGS AND USING PREVENTIVE TOOLS
SUCH AS TOTAL LYMPHOCYTE COUNT AND
NEUTROPHIL COUNT
• CHECK INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION CRITERIA
OF JOURNAL
 CLINICAL SCENARIO JOURNAL STUDY
POPULATION NEGATIVE APPENDECTOMY INCIDENCE IS 1.5 TO 1.9
USUALLY SIGNIFICANTLY PER 100.000 AND IS 1.4
SLIGHTLY MALE TO FEMALE TIMES MORE COMMON IN
PREDOMINANCE BUT MEN
HIGHER IN FEMALE
INTERVENTION
OUTCOME
METHOD RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
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INCLUSION CRITERIA EXCLUSION CRITERIA
• ALL CASES PRESENTED IN • PATIENTS WITH INTERVAL,
THE EMERGENCY WITH A ELECTIVE OR INCIDENTAL
DIAGNOSIS OF ACUTE APPENDECTOMIES ARE
APPENDICITIS DURING THE EXCLUDED
PERIOD OF STUDY WERE • ALL CASES WITH CO-
INCLUDED. MORBIDITIES SUCH AS
CROHN’S DISEASE, PELVIC
INFLAMMATORY DISEASE,
GASTROENTERITIS, SYSTEMIC
INFECTION, AND PREGNANCY
WERE EXCLUDED
APPRAISE VALIDITY