This data frame corresponds to 51 clinical studies reporting the accuracy of computer tomography (CT) scans for the diagnosis of appendicities.
A matrix with 51 rows and 17 columns. Each row represents study results, the columns are:
number of true positives.
number of patients with disease.
number of false positives.
number of patients without disease.
First author and year.
Country: EU = 1, others/USA = 2.
Type of hospital: 1 = university, 2 = others.
Inclusion criteria: 1 = Suspected, 2 = appendectomy.
Other CT findings included: 1 = no, 2 = yes.
Study design: 1 = prospective, 2 = retrospective.
Contrast medium: 1 = no, 2 = yes.
Localisation: 1 = one area, 2 = more than one area.
Children included: 1 = no, 2 = yes.
Followup: 0 = no, 1 = yes.
Valid reference: 0 = no, 1 = yes.
Sample: 0 = selected, 1= consecutive/random.
Gender, female: 0 = less than 50%; 1 = more than 50%.
This data frame corresponds to 51 clinical studies reporting the accuracy of computer tomography (CT) scans for the diagnosis of appendicities.
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