Figure Two. Appendectomy Patients Who Received Pre-operative Imaging.
Hospitals are stratified by the year in which they joined SCOAP (represented by black lines that begin with the year in which that group of hospitals first submitted cases to SCOAP). The solid gray line indicates the number of patients who underwent pre-operative imaging as a percentage of all appendectomy patients from all hospitals participating in SCOAP in any particular year. Test for trend for the overall percentage of pre-operative imaging was significant (p < 0.001).