CT Carcinogenic Risk in Patients With Appendicitis
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- Appendicitis
- Carcinogenesis
- Computed Tomography
- Radiation Exposure
- Type
- Observational
- Design
- Observational Model: CohortTime Perspective: Retrospective
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Younger than 125 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
South Korea has a single-payer healthcare system, administered by National Health Insurance Service (NHIS). As healthcare providers in South Korea need to claim reimbursement to NHIS for the vast majority of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, the NHIS database enabled us to construct a large coh...
South Korea has a single-payer healthcare system, administered by National Health Insurance Service (NHIS). As healthcare providers in South Korea need to claim reimbursement to NHIS for the vast majority of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, the NHIS database enabled us to construct a large cohort who did or did not undergo CT for appendicitis. The purpose of this study is to compare the incidence rate of cancer between CT-exposed and CT-unexposed group in patients who underwent appendectomy in South Korea.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT03776435
- Collaborators
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Investigators
- Not Provided
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