Post Operative Oral Intake in Pediatric Cases of Perforated Appendicitis

Post Operative Oral Intake in Pediatric Cases of Perforated Appendicitis
Principal Investigator	R. Lawrence Moss, MD
Lead Investigator	Marion C W Henry, MD
Doris Duke Research Fellow	Angela Walker, BS, MSII
Clinical Epidemiologist	Bonnie Lang Silverman, PhD

Project Goals

To identify factors that determine length of time to oral intake in pediatric patients following surgical treatment of perforated appendicitis.

Study Design

Multi-center observational outcome study of children with perforated appendicitis. Study outcomes: time to sustained oral feeding after appendectomy. Study hypothesis: length of time to oral intake will be more highly associated with surgeon preference than with any other clinical factor.

Study Sites

medical centers:

Yale University: Yale New Haven Children's Hospital
Mississippi Children's Hospital
Stanford University: Packard Children's Hospital
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital

Data Collection

Admission Data
Transfer Data
Daily Clinical Data
Culture & Imaging Reports
Operative Data
Complications

Data Management

Customized MS Access database

Data Analysis

Stata V 8.0

Funding

In process.

Timeline

Start date: Sept., 2003

End date: Oct, 2004

Status: Jan 2006

Data analysis completed in Oct 2004
Walker A, Henry MCW, Silverman BL, Dziura J, Gollin G, Islam S, Sylvester K, Moss RL. “ Does Surgeons' Preference Predict Time To Feeding In Perforated Appendicitis?” Oral poster presentation accepted for presentation at the 1st Annual Academic Surgical Congress; February 7-11, 2006, San Diego, CA.
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