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...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5098829?pdf=render |