A combined medical/surgical appendicitis pathway decreases pediatric CT utilization, perforation, and negative appendectomy rates

Abstract Background We sought to improve the care of pediatric patients with possible appendicitis by decreasing unnecessary CT scanning. In an early QI initiative, we systematically emphasized the superiority of Ultrasonography (US) over CT, but did not find a decrease in CT utilization in practice...

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Main Authors: Sidney M. Johnson (Author), Devin P. Puapong (Author), Charles Peebles (Author), Kelli Ishihara (Author), Kenneth Bogenberger (Author), Russell K. Woo (Author)
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Published: SpringerOpen, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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