[Appendicitis in Hungary through the eyes of a health insurance specialist].
Appendicitis is the most common surgical disease. There is a very large literature for both its diagnosis and therapy.


OBJECTIVE
The author examined whether patients who were admitted with the diagnosis of appendicitis underwent surgery and what admission diagnoses were reported in cases of surgically treated patients.


RESULTS
In Hungary, there have been more than 92,000 appendectomies performed in the last eleven years. The proportion of laparoscopic surgery was 2.0% in 2000 and it rose to 18.8% in 2010. Using database of the national health insurance the author found that 5.6% of all surgically treated patients were referred to hospital with a diagnosis other than appendicitis. In contrast, 18.1% of the patients referred to hospital with the diagnosis of appendicitis were discharged without surgery.


CONCLUSIONS
In Hungary, there are large regional differences in the proportion of surgery.
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