A practical score for the early diagnosis of acute appendicitis.

By A. Alvarado. 1986

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Interval Coded Scoring: a toolbox for interpretable scoring systems (2018, background): “Examples of scoring systems include Alvarado for appendicitis (Alvarado, 1986), CHA 2 DS 2 -VASc for atrial ﬁbrillation (Lip et al., 2010), Glasgow for pancreatitis (Mounzer et al., 2012), CURB-65 for pneumonia (Jeong et al., 2013) and ASDAS for disease activity in ankylosing spondylitis (Lukas et…”
Diagnosis and Management of Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infection in Adults and Children: Guidelines by the Surgical Infection Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2010, unknown): “The findings of several analyses involving both children and adults are that no scoring system provides greater diagnostic sensitivity or specificity than clinical impression, although the analyses used to generate and then verify these systems have identified independent variables and their positiv”
The recalcitrance of overconfidence and its contribution to decision aid neglect (2005, methodology): “, Alvarado, 1986; Corey & Merenstein, 1987), the prediction of dangerousness (e.g., McNiel & Binder, 1994), and financial auditing (e.g., Ashton, 1991). As an example of a simple but effective decision aid, consider one developed by Corey and Merenstein (1987) designed to predict acute ischemic hear”