Table 3.

List of in the meta-analysis included studies and attributed outcome of interest, divided into adults and children

Study ID	change in case numbers	surgical therapy	antibiotic treatment	complicated appendicitis	length of stay	time to presentation
Adults:
Angeramo et al.				X	X	X
Baral et al.	X	X	X	X	X	X
Baugh et al.	X
Boyle et al.	X		X	X	X	X
Butt et al.	X
Dreifuss et al.				X	X	X
Drysdale et al.	X			X
English et al.		X	X		X
Fallani et al.	X
Finkelstein et al.	X		X	X	X	X
Ganesh et al.		X	X		X
Gao et al.				X		X
Guadalajara et al.	X
Köhler et al.	X	X	X	X
Kumaira Fonseca et al.	X			X	X	X
Lechner et al.	X			X
Maneck et al.	X			X	X
McGuiness et al., 2020	X
McGuiness et al., 2021	X			X	X
Mekaeil et al.	X
Meric et al.	X	X		X	X
Orthopoulos et al.		X	X	X	X
Patel et al.	X		X	X	X	X
Perrone et al.	X				X
Romero et al.	X
Rosa et al.	X
Surek et al.	X			X
Tankel et al.	X	X	X	X	X	X
Toale et al.		X	X	X	X
Turanli et al.	X			X
Verma et al.	X		X
Walker et al.	X
Wang et al.		X		X	X	X
Zhou et al.	X	X		X	X
Children:
Bada-Bosch et al.	X	X		X	X
Bellini et al.				X
Fisher et al.	X			X	X	X
Gerall et al.	X		X			X
La Pergola et al.	X					X
Lee-Archer et al.	X			X
Montalva et al.	X	X		X	X	X
Pines et al.	X
Place et al.	X			X
Raffaele et al.	X	X	X	X	X	X
Sheath et al.	X	X	X	X	X	X
Snapiri et al.	X			X