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Is the Alvarado score accurate in predicting acute appendicitis in the black South African population?
Is the Alvarado score accurate in predicting acute appendicitis in the black South African population?
The Alvarado score may miss a significant proportion of acute appendicitis cases in the black South African population, highlighting the need for prospective validation and potential modification.
The widespread use of the Alvarado score has its merits, but its applicability in the black South African population is unclear, with a significant proportion of patients with the disease being potentially missed. Further prospective validation of the Alvarado score and possible modification is needed to increase its relevance in our setting.
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Kong et al. (2014) studied this question.