Appendicitis risk prediction models in children presenting with right iliac fossa pain (RIFT study): a prospective, multicentre validation study
Authors: Dmitri Nepogodiev, Richard JW Wilkin, Catherine J Bradshaw, Clare Skerritt, Alasdair Ball, Waaka Moni-Nwinia, Ruth Blanco-Colino, Priyesh Chauhan, Thomas M Drake, Matteo Frasson, Oliver Gee, James C Glasbey, Jacob H Matthews, Gabriella L Morley, David N Naumann, Francesco Pata, Antonio S Soares, Aneel Bhangu, SH Abbas, AM Abdelgadir, A Abdelrahman, M Abdelrahman, A Abdelwahed, Y Abou El Ella, M Abulafi, A Acharya, ME Adam, RE Adams, SO Adegbola, A Adimonye, M Adnan, S Afshar, A Ahad, J Ahel, DP Ahern, A Ahmad Asmadi, B Ahmed, G Ahmed, OS Ahmed, S Ahmed, K Akbari, O Akinsola, W Al-Khyatt, B Al-Sarireh, M Al-Sheikh, M Alani, R Alexander, T Alhammali, M Ali, A Aljorfi, M Allen, J Allington, A Alshafei, R Amarasinghe, A Amayo, V Amin, Thuva Amuthalingam, L Anandan, O Anderson, SM Andreani, B Andrews, A Ang, B Aravind, JE Archer, MA Aremu, S Arunachalam, N Aruparayil, DL Ashmore, O Ashour, N Ashraf, N Assaf, H Avalapati, OO Awokoya, J Ayube-Brown, T Badenoch, R Bagga, A Baginski, S Bailey, STR Bailey, C Baird, B Baker, EJ Balai, A Balasubramaniam, SK Bandyopadhyay, A Banks, H Bansal, W Barnieh, A Barrie, CA Barter, J Bastianpillai, WD Beasley, CR Bell, J Bell, D Beral, BJM Berry, KE Bevan, V Bevan, Shiv Bhanderi, A Bhargava, D Bilku, A Birindelli, OD Blackford, JEM Blackwell, L Blake, Natalie S Blencowe, TD Boam, C Boereboom, M Bogdan, P Bohra, JC Bolger, W Bolton, S Bond, CM Borg, K Borghol, PR Boshier, N Bouhadiba, J Bowen, H Bowerman, CR Bowman, H Boyd-Carson, CJ Bradshaw, G Branagan, P Brennan, M Brett, HK Brewer, H Brewer, C Bronder, A Brown, AG Brown, CE Brown, M Brown, R Brown, S Buckley-Jones, A Budzanowski, W Bukhari, C Bull, JK Bullivant, KM Burns, D Burnside, A Busuttil, BE Byrne, CK Byrnes, M Caldwell, R Callan, FC Cameron, U Campbell, UM Campbell, W Campbell, CA Carden, CFW Carder, K Carney, H Cartwright, P Cay, A Chalk, B Chambers, A Champsi, D Chan, TCW Chan, SB Chandler, J Chapman, A Charalabopoulos, B Chasty, M Chatzikonstantinou, WL Cheah, CS Chean, S Cheng, SA Cheng, M Cheruvu, MY Chin, IA Chishti, S Choi, SM Chok, B Chong, JH Choong, M Chowdhary, F Chowdhury, CH Choy, L Christian, P Christopoulos, K Chui, M Cipparrone, GL Clark, SA Clarke, SJ Cleeve, KD Clement, B Clements, C Clements, JD Clements, JM Clements, JS Clements, JA Clements, R Clingan, L Cloney, ECS Clough, PO Coe, O Collier-Wakefield, DW Colliver, DA Colvin, TM Connelly, MJ Connor, V Cook, F Cooke, F Cooper, AE Cotton, DG Couch, L Cousins, D Coyle, W Creasy, RL Cresner, A Crone, K Cross, J Crozier, P Cunha, NJ Curtis, N D'Souza, H Dagash, S Dalmia, I Daniels, D Danquah-Boateng, FA Dar, K Dart, A Das, R Daureeawoo, S Davidson, JR Davidson, PL Davies, S Davis, V Daya Shetty, A De-Manzoni-Garberini, JA De-Marchi, EA Dean, S Dean, C Delimpalta, S Denley, G Dennison, AA Devine, S Dharamavaram, AA Dhari, F Di Franco, S Di Saverio, C Dobson, JA Docherty, C Doherty, G Donaldson, NO Donohoe, O Donohoe, E Douka, T Doulias, M Downey, C Doyle, N Drye, DT Du, JG Dudek, PG Dunning, ARS Dyal, NJ Eardley, L Earnshaw, S Easdon, SE Edwards, RJ Egan, RJ Egan, S El-Masry, O El-Tayar, CR Elbourne, S Elgaddal, M Elseedawy, M Elshaer, OH Elsharnoby, WMA Elzeneini, KM Emslie, NFT Engall, B Ertansel, HD Esmail, C Ettles, J Evans, JD Evans, A Everden, M Fadel, SE Fahmy, CJ Fairfield, BF Fanibi, Valeria Farina, SM Farrell, EZ Farrow, JA Fasuyi, G Faulkner, D Fawkner-Corbett, F Fawzi, M Fehervari, N Ferguson, JG Finch, H Finlayson, T Flack, W Foers, NM Foley, K Ford, A Forgie, A Foster, JD Foster, AMW Fox, N Francis, D Franklin, H Froud, HL Fuller, E Gaines, J Galea, E Gammeri, J Garnham, J Garvin, Z Gates, R Gentry, I Ghaffari, S Ghatorae, AL Gidwani, TG Gilbert, TM Gilbert, S Gill, M Gillespie, J Gillick, A Giorga, K Gopalakrishnan, S Gopalswamy, S Gopinath, R Gormely, G Govind, C Grant, J Graveston, J Gray, RT Gray, D Griffith, JP Griffith, Ewen A Griffiths, SN Griffiths, EJ Griggs, S Grosvenor, T Grove, M Gulamhussein, J Guliani, A Gummaraju, S Gunning, SV Gurjar, S Guru-Naidu, S Gurung, H Habib, L Hackney, James B Haddow, S Hajibandeh, C Halkias, NJ Hall, RN Hamelmann, M Haneef, MS Haneef, Z Hanif, C Hanley, AJ Hann, T Hanna, E Hardy, A Harlinska, F Harper, RL Harries, A Harris, Grant Harris, MP Harris, R Hasan, A Hassane, JR Hatt, Z Haveliwala, W Hawkins, Z Hayat, C Hayes, KRM Hebbar, L Henderson, LT Henderson, PJJ Herrod, P Hever, LM Hickey, G Hicks, JM Hodgson, M Hoff, A Hollingsworth, A Hook, ST Hornby, E Horsfield, EE Howie, L Huang, NJ Hudson-Peacock, DL Hughes, KA Hureibi, A Hussain, N Hussain, SA Hussaini, A Hussein, B Hutchinson, YMS Ibrahim, S Ikram, T Ilozue, E Iosif, MR Iqbal, S Irukulla, R Irwin, N Islam, P Ivey, CR Jackson, A Jackson, SMH Jah, A Jain, S Jain, Sarus Jain, GM Jama, NB Jamieson, S Janardanan, B Jasinski, D Jenner, E Jerome, B Johnson, A Johnstone, S Jokhan, A Jones, CE Jones, CS Jones, E Jones, L Jones, U Kabir, S Kabwama, M Kamal, IW Kamande, V Kanakala, M Kannegieser-Bailey, S Kaptanis, MJ Karim, RS Karwal, G Kaur, R Keegan, A Kelay, ND Kennedy, DA Kent, A Khair, K Khan, S Khan, A Khasria, H Kho, J Kilkenny, R King, J Kinross, EN Kirkham, B Knight, R Kochupapy, C Koh, O Kouli, A Krishnamoorthy, S Krivan, K Kumar, S Kumar, VWS Kung, R Kuo, G Lafaurie, CW Lai, N Lal, S Lawday, S Layman, GR Layton, A Lazzaro, L Lecky-Thompson, KA Lee, KJ Lee, M Lee, SL Lee, PA Leighton, RP Leitch, HC Lennox-Warburton, EL Leung, CH Li, JM Lim, C Limb, G Ljungqvist, G Lloyd, S Lodhia, PC Logan, M Long, P Long, RH Long, A Longshaw, C Louw, JN Lund, C Ly, MJ Lynch Wong, JKY Ma, A Macdonald, EGE Macinnes, T Magro, R Mahapatra, B Mahendran, F Mahmood, A Mahmoud, D Mahon, D Mai, A Maina, CP Major, R Makhija, Y Malam, A Malik, K Malik, SN Malik, VM Manda, KM Manektella, C Mann, P Manoharan, R Manson, S Mansoor, MM Mansour, S Mansour, F Maqboul, D Maragouthakis, G Marangoni, S Mardhiah, H Maripi, P Marriott, L Marsh, G Marshall, A Martin, LM Martin, E Martinou, R Mashar, John Mason, M Masood, G Mathew, K Maude, E Mazumdar, A Mc-Dermott, D Mcarthur, RS Mccain, S McCain, C Mccann, P Mccaughey, SJ Mccluney, J Mccullough, D Mcdonnell, NA Mcdowall, JE McEntee, K McGlynn, D Mcgrath, O Mcgucken, S Mcilwaine, AC Mcilwrath, SC Mckay, MA McKelvie, M Mckenna, J Mckeon, KL Mckevitt, NC Mckinley, D McLaughlin, SV McMahon, D Mcmorran, L McNally, M Mcquaid, DM Mcwhirter, K Mealy, A Mears, D Menzies, H Merai, RJ Mersh, M Miguras, D Milgrom, K Miller, J Milward, S Mirza, AT Misky, D Mistry, MJ Mitchard, RM Mitru, IM Mohamed, Imran Mohamed, TM Mohamed, WO Mohamed, N Mohd, C Moore, J Moradzadeh, TEM Morrison, V Morrison-Jones, Dion G Morton, BS Mothe, BS Mothe, Fh Motiwala, D Motter, NG Mowbray, Z Mughal, J Mulsow, N Mundkur, A Muntean, C Murphy, R Murphy, MP Murray, M Muzaffar, A Myatt, A Nadeem, D Nagarajan, S Nagendram, A Nair, MK Nair, MS Nair, KN Naismith, K Nambiar, GR Nana, Z Nash, P Nastro, S Nazarian, G Neagle, A Neale, PM Neary, RC Newton, M Ng, S Ng, O Niaz, S Nickson, D Nicol, E Nimako, MS Noor Mohamed, M 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Reddy, EP Redman, AE Redmond, S Rekhraj, S Renshaw, D Rex, M Rezacova, S Rezvani, B Ribeiro, JE Rich, TD Richardson, S Rigby, B Rigney, S Rinkoff, HD Robb, C Robertson, D Robinson, A Robinson, V Rodger, R Rolph, S Roomi, NPG Roth, K Rothnie, C Roy, S Rupani, DG Rutherford, R Sacks, N Saghir, A Saha, SJ Sahay, K Sahnan, Y Salama, S Salim, M Samuel, S Sana, L Sandu, P Sarmah, J Sarveswaran, SMF Saunders, A Savill, F Savioli, JR Schuster Bruce, JF Sebastian, TC Seddon, N Seneviratne, M Seth, T Setshwaelo, E Sezen, P Sgardelis, A Sgrò, C Shah, J Shah, K Shah, SM Shah, Z Shakoor, MS Shalaby, V Shanmuganathan, K Shanmugarajah, A Sharma, P Sharma, A Sharma, OL Sharp, JA Shepherd, MA Sherif, S Shet, G Shingler, MH Shiwani, D Shreshta, T Sian, MN Siddiqui, ZA Siddiqui, KL Siggens, N Sihra, I Silva, A Simioni, LFC Simmonds, DJ Simpson, A Singh, S Singh, T Singhal, P Sivaloganathan, K Sloan, N Smallcombe, CJ Smart, Neil J Smart, R Smith, H Smoker, L Solinas, JEH Souter, EL Springate, GF Stephens, R Stevenson, DJ Stewart, I Stoica, E Strachan, BM Stubbs, W Stupalkowska, A Suliman, A Sultana, H Sunter, S Suriyakumar, NRA Symons, K Szentpali, A Szucs, V Tabain, LE Tague, K Tailor, CY Tan, S Tan, AM Tang, M Tarazi, YH Tay, S Tayeh, M Taylor, NS Taylor, D Taze, E Teasdale, N Thakral, B Thava, N Thavanesan, AJ Thaventhiran, K Theodoropoulou, AT Thomas, L Thomas, DB Thompson, R Thompson, SN Thoukididou, SG Tiboni, LA Tiedt, N Ting, BJ Tinsley, JM Tognarelli, J Torkington, A Torrance, DC Townsend, PJ Tozer, M Trail, F Trew, V Tudyka, L Tullie, A Turnbull, EJ Turner, CS Twum-Barima, Robert Tyler, S Vakis, A La Valle, GI Van Boxel, J Vance-Daniel, M Varcada, N Varma, EM Vaughan, VR Velchuru, R Velho, AK Venkatasubramaniam, ML Venn, V Vijay, Z Vinnicombe, P Vitish-Sharma, S Wagener, K Waite, KJ Walters, U Walters, BG Wardle, SD Wardle, J Warusavitarne, J Watfah, N Watson, J Wauchope, LW Weatherburn, CR Weegenaar, S Welsh, S Wheatstone, HE Whewell, P Whitehouse, E Whiteman, L Whittaker, K Wijesundera, D Wilkinson, GL Williams, M Williams, R Williams, S Williams, EJ Wilson, MSJ Wilson, DC Winter, G Winter, J Wolff, A Wong, CLL Wong, SY Wong, CS Wood, C Woodrow, A Woodward, B Woodward, E Wright, HL Wright, F Wu, S Yalamarthi, P Yang, E Yardimci, T Yasin, SK Yen, S Yoganathan, S Yoong, H Youssef, LPS Yow, A Zaborowski, AZ Zadi, ZA Zarka, MA Zarog, AY Zhang, Aneel Bhangu
Journal: The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (2020)