Why the study?
What are the demographic and temporal profiles of emergency appendicectomy for acute appendicitis compared to appendicectomy in other circumstances?
Population
47,505 records of appendicectomy from the Oxford record linkage study (ORLS) from 1970-1986
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
1970-1986
Authors
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Suggests true decline in appendicitis incidence; leaves open whether sex differences reflect diagnostic bias or biology.
What are the demographic and temporal profiles of emergency appendicectomy for acute appendicitis compared to appendicectomy in other circumstances?
The study demonstrates a true decline in acute appendicitis over time, but no decline for conditions mimicking it, highlighting a significantly higher rate of appendicectomy without acute appendicitis in women.
Primatesta et al. (1994) studied this question.
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