The European journal of surgery = Acta chirurgica
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Review Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Diagnostic scores for acute appendicitis. Abdominal Pain Study Group.
To assess the value of predictive scores in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. ⋯ The original published data seemed to comply with our standardised criteria but evaluation of the scores on our database resulted in poor performances for all of them. Published data seem to be optimistically biased whereas our evaluation gives more realistic estimates of the routine performance in different clinical environments. Further well designed large scale trials are needed to investigate the clinical benefit of diagnostic scoring in acute appendicitis.