Erschienen in:
01.09.2005
Invited Commentary
verfasst von:
C. Ohmann, Ph.D, C. Franke, M.D.
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 9/2005
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Excerpt
This study by Tzanakis et al. [
1] (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-7853-6) on the diagnosis of acute appendicitis is well designed. A new diagnostic score is developed on a training-set and tested prospectively on a separate test-set. The radiologist is blinded, the score developed by multivariate statistical techniques, and the analysis performed and presented adequately. In addition, the authors have tested several published diagnostic scores [
2] and have compared the results to the newly proposed scoring system. …