Study characteristics |
Patient sampling |
Consecutive patients with clinically suspected acute appendicitis referred for CT |
Patient characteristics and setting |
Gender and age distributions: not stated. Departments of Emergency and Radiology in Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
Index tests |
CT of the lower abdomen with oral and rectal contrast medium |
Target condition and reference standard(s) |
Acute appendicitis. Histopathological analysis of the removed appendix in participants who had appendicectomy. Clinical follow‐up in participants who did not have appendicectomy |
Flow and timing |
35 participants were included in the study and in the analyses. 17 (49%) participants had appendicitis |
Comparative |
No |
Notes |
Unclear if the 35 persons included in this study were also included in later studies by the same trial author |