Puntuación diagnóstica para apendicitis: estudio prospectivo de su aplicación por profesionales de salud no-médicos

Background: Diagnostic scores have been developed as simple, user-friendly, cost-effective instruments to improve the early diagnosis of acute appendicitis. Aim: To assess the yield of a diagnostic score for acute appendicitis, measured by trained health-related non-physician professional. Patients...

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Autores principales:	Beltrán,Marcelo A, Villar M,Raúl, Cruces,Karina S
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2006
Materias:	Appendicitis Diagnosis Diagnostic techniques and procedures Emergency room nursing
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720060001000052006-03-08Puntuación diagnóstica para apendicitis: estudio prospectivo de su aplicación por profesionales de salud no-médicosBeltrán,Marcelo AVillar M,RaúlCruces,Karina S Appendicitis Diagnosis Diagnostic techniques and procedures Emergency room nursing Background: Diagnostic scores have been developed as simple, user-friendly, cost-effective instruments to improve the early diagnosis of acute appendicitis. Aim: To assess the yield of a diagnostic score for acute appendicitis, measured by trained health-related non-physician professional. Patients and methods: A prospective, double blind, non-randomized trial. Emergency room nurses applied a previously validated diagnostic score for appendicitis to patients aged more than 15 years with abdominal pain and tachycardia or fever. The main outcome was the percentage of patients operated for acute appendicitis that had a positive score for appendicitis and a pathologically demonstrated appendicitis. Results: The mean scores for patients operated or not operated for appendicitis were 8.64 and 3.31, respectively. The figures for sensitivity, specificity and diagnostic accuracy of the score were 0.83, 0.98 and 0.94, respectively. Conclusions: An appendicitis score measured by health-related non-physician professionals has a similar diagnostic yield than clinical judgmentinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.134 n.1 20062006-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872006000100005es10.4067/S0034-98872006000100005
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topic	Appendicitis Diagnosis Diagnostic techniques and procedures Emergency room nursing
spellingShingle	Appendicitis Diagnosis Diagnostic techniques and procedures Emergency room nursing Beltrán,Marcelo A Villar M,Raúl Cruces,Karina S Puntuación diagnóstica para apendicitis: estudio prospectivo de su aplicación por profesionales de salud no-médicos
description	Background: Diagnostic scores have been developed as simple, user-friendly, cost-effective instruments to improve the early diagnosis of acute appendicitis. Aim: To assess the yield of a diagnostic score for acute appendicitis, measured by trained health-related non-physician professional. Patients and methods: A prospective, double blind, non-randomized trial. Emergency room nurses applied a previously validated diagnostic score for appendicitis to patients aged more than 15 years with abdominal pain and tachycardia or fever. The main outcome was the percentage of patients operated for acute appendicitis that had a positive score for appendicitis and a pathologically demonstrated appendicitis. Results: The mean scores for patients operated or not operated for appendicitis were 8.64 and 3.31, respectively. The figures for sensitivity, specificity and diagnostic accuracy of the score were 0.83, 0.98 and 0.94, respectively. Conclusions: An appendicitis score measured by health-related non-physician professionals has a similar diagnostic yield than clinical judgment
author	Beltrán,Marcelo A Villar M,Raúl Cruces,Karina S
author_facet	Beltrán,Marcelo A Villar M,Raúl Cruces,Karina S
author_sort	Beltrán,Marcelo A
title	Puntuación diagnóstica para apendicitis: estudio prospectivo de su aplicación por profesionales de salud no-médicos
title_short	Puntuación diagnóstica para apendicitis: estudio prospectivo de su aplicación por profesionales de salud no-médicos
title_full	Puntuación diagnóstica para apendicitis: estudio prospectivo de su aplicación por profesionales de salud no-médicos
title_fullStr	Puntuación diagnóstica para apendicitis: estudio prospectivo de su aplicación por profesionales de salud no-médicos
title_full_unstemmed	Puntuación diagnóstica para apendicitis: estudio prospectivo de su aplicación por profesionales de salud no-médicos
title_sort	puntuación diagnóstica para apendicitis: estudio prospectivo de su aplicación por profesionales de salud no-médicos
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2006
url	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872006000100005
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Puntuación diagnóstica para apendicitis: estudio prospectivo de su aplicación por profesionales de salud no-médicos

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