Surgical decision-making in acute appendicitis

BMC Surgery

Table 1 Outcome of the retrospective investigation

Symptoms	Odds ratio	95 % confidence interval	p
Nausea	2.64	1.73-4.03	<0.001
Vomiting	2.26	1.42-3.58	0.001
Loss of appetite	3.40	1.97-5.88	<0.001
Pain in the right fossa	23.03	13.25-40.05	<0.001
Pain in the left fossa	0.77	0.39-1.51	0.45
Pain in the right hypochondrium	0.27	0.12-0.62	0.002
Pain in the left hypochondrium	0.39	0.11-1.36	0.14
Pain in the epigastrium	0.73	0.45-1.19	0.21
Pain in the umbilical area	2.13	1.35-3.36	0.001
Pain migration	23.65	11.86-47.15	<0.001
Insidious occurrence of pain	1.31	0.79-2.17	0.30
Pain provoked by movement	2.04	1.12-3.72	0.019
Signs
Tenderness in the right fossa	80.35	35.38-182.50	<0.001
Tenderness in the left fossa	0.95	0.47-1-90	0.88
Tenderness in the right hypochondrium	0.18	0.07-0.45	<0.001
Tenderness in the left hypochondrium	0.53	0.14-1.93	0.34
Tenderness in the epigastrium	0.16	0.07-0.36	<0.001
Tenderness in the umbilical area	0.87	0.47-1.61	0.66
Indirect tenderness	29.12	11.24-75.43	<0.001
Rigid abdomen	2.06	0.71-6.00	0.18
Diagnostic measures
Image diagnostics	4.99	3.12-7.97	<0.001
Raised leukocyte count	11.11	6.55-18.84	<0.001
Raised CRP	28.86	15.19-58.82	<0.001
Increasing CRP	27.97	10.78-72.56	<0.001

Association between recorded symptoms, signs and diagnostic measures and the risk for subsequently undergoing appendectomy

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