Clinical Features vs CT Findings to Estimate Need for Surgery in Small Bowel Obstruction

Sara Schulwolf; Charles Brower; Alessandra Karam; Joaquim Havens; Hamid Shokoohi; Nicole M Duggan; Andrew J Goldsmith

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.41376

Clinical Features vs CT Findings to Estimate Need for Surgery in Small Bowel Obstruction

JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Nov 1;6(11):e2341376. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.41376.

Authors

Sara Schulwolf¹, Charles Brower², Alessandra Karam³, Joaquim Havens⁴, Hamid Shokoohi⁵, Nicole M Duggan⁶, Andrew J Goldsmith⁶

Affiliations

¹ University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington.
² University of Cincinnati Emergency Medicine Residency, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
³ Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Mt Pleasant.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This comparative effectiveness research compares the ability of clinical features vs clinical features with computed tomography (CT) to estimate the need for small bowel obstruction surgery.

MeSH terms

Humans
Intestinal Obstruction* / diagnostic imaging
Intestinal Obstruction* / surgery
Intestine, Small / diagnostic imaging
Intestine, Small / surgery
Tomography, X-Ray Computed