Incidence of Appendicitis over Time: A Comparative Analysis of an Administrative Healthcare Database and a Pathology-Proven Appendicitis Registry.

Incidence of Appendicitis over Time: A Comparative Analysis of an Administrative Healthcare Database and a Pathology-Proven Appendicitis Registry.

At the turn of the 21st century, studies evaluating the change in incidence of appendicitis over time have reported inconsistent findings.We compared the differences in the incidence of appendicitis derived from a pathology registry versus an administrative database in order to validate coding in ad...

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Main Authors: Stephanie Coward, Hashim Kareemi, Fiona Clement, Scott Zimmer, Elijah Dixon, Chad G Ball, Steven J Heitman, Mark Swain, Subrata Ghosh, Gilaad G Kaplan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5098829?pdf=render

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