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- Title
Alvarado score: an admission criterion in patients with right iliac fossa pain.
- Authors
Chan, M. Y. P.; Tan, C.; Chiu, M. T.; Ng, Y. Y.
- Abstract
Presents a study that investigated whether the Alvarado score can be used by emergency room doctors as a criteria for admission of patents with suspected appendicitis. Analysis of the Alvarado scores of several patients who presented to the emergency department with right iliac fossa pain; Algorithm for using the Alvarado score as an objective criteria for admission to the surgical department; Description of the Alvarado scoring system.
- Subjects
EMERGENCY medical services; APPENDIX diseases
- Publication
Surgeon (Edinburgh University Press), 2003, Vol 1, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
1479-666X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/S1479-666X(03)80007-0