Original contributionUse of the MANTRELS score in childhood appendicitis: A prospective study of 187 children with abdominal pain
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2014, Annals of Emergency MedicineCitation Excerpt :Most studies specified that the decision to perform surgery was independent of the clinical decision rule(s). In 3 studies, the decision to operate was guided by the score result,12,14,20 and for 5 studies it was not clear whether the surgery decision was independent.11,19,24,30,31 A summary of the quality assessment is shown in Figure 1.
Presented at the Ambulatory Pediatric Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, May 1988.
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