title: Acute appendicitis in childhood: a feasibility study of computer-assisted diagnosis.
abstract: The case records of 169 children admitted to hospital with suspected appendicitis were subjected to Bayesian analysis in order to determine whether computer-assisted diagnosis would be likely to reduce the negative laparotomy rate. The results suggest that the negative laparotomy rate could be reduced from 27% to 18% if computer-assisted diagnosis was used.
authors.affiliation: Princess Mary Hospital for Children, Aukland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: I D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Burton
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D002648:Child; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans