Point of Care Ultrasound for Evaluation of Suspected Appendicitis in the Emergency Department
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Official title
Point of Care Ultrasound for Evaluation of Suspected Appendicitis in the Emergency
Brief summary
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The primary purpose of this study is to determine the accuracy of ultrasound (US) in diagnosing appendicitis in emergency department (ED) patients, as compared to the criterion standards of computed tomography, operative reports, or discharge diagnosis. The secondary purposes of the study include evaluation of the effect of ultrasound for appendicitis on the patient length of stay in the emergency department, the diagnostic utility of specific ultrasound findings in the diagnosis of appendicitis, the role of body mass index (BMI) in the utility of ultrasound for appendicitis and relation of ultrasound findings to the Alvarado score. The study will also examine the inter-rater agreement between point-of- care sonographers' interpretation and blinded reviewers' interpretation of the ultrasound images.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02731924
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- 262 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- Not listed
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Apr 30, 2014
- Primary completion
- Dec 31, 2020
- Completion
- Dec 31, 2020
- Last update posted
- Apr 7, 2021
2014 – 2021
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellspan Health York Hospital | York | Pennsylvania | 17403 | — |
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