Abdominal pain is among the most common reasons children are taken to the emergency department. A small proportion of them ...

Researchers found that 35% selected nonoperative management and 65% selected urgent laparoscopic appendectomy. HealthDay News — Nonoperative management (NOM) is cost-effective for pediatric ...

Researchers found that large pediatric centers achieve low rates of delayed diagnosis of appendicitis while also having the lowest rates of CT use.

In a larger pediatric population, Weyant et al. concluded that the use of CT does not impact the incidence of negative appendectomy [25]. Due to a concern that the reduction in negative ...

As part of the ML Zoomcamp by DataTalks, I worked on the Regensburg Pediatric Appendicitis dataset provided by the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository. This dataset holds the data from a cohort of ...

Canada: A new machine-learning model has demonstrated potential in predicting the severity of pediatric appendicitis before surgery. "The model successfully classified appendicitis into five severity ...

Method: A prospective study including children <15 years with appendicitis. Blood samples were collected preoperatively at the time of clinical assessment at the Pediatric Emergency Department and ...

“Children with abdominal pain are a diagnostic conundrum. On the one hand those who have appendicitis need to be diagnosed in ...

Among 120,112 cases of abdominal pain, only 0.1% had a delayed diagnosis of appendicitis and these were not associated with differences in imaging rates. Researchers found that large pediatric ...