Regional results of acute appendicitis care
- 18 September 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 246 (12), 1318-1320
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.246.12.1318
Abstract
In 1978, acute appendicitis care was reviewed by studying 2375 cases from 74% of all hospitals in Wisconsin, USA, outside the greater Milwaukee area. The mortality was 0.17% and the wound complication rate was 5.3%. A normal appendix report was noted in 14% of all cases; female patients accounted for 60% of these cases and only 44.5% of the total study population. The rupture or perforation rate was 13.4%; 62% of these problems occurred in male patients. The mean hospital stay was 5.4 days; for perforated cases, it was 10.2 days. An analysis that compared hospitals by their individual ratios of normal appendices to perforations favors the conclusion that a small but real decrease in negative appendectomy rates could be achieved without producing more ruptures or perforations.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Laparoscopy for Questionable AppendicitisAnnals of Surgery, 1980
- Appendectomies during physicians' boycott. Analysis of surgical careJAMA, 1979