Challenges in managing acute appendicitis differ across Europe: patient and system-level insights from observational cohort study data comparing two European countries
1 Trauma and Emergency Surgery Unit, General Surgery Department, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Sevilla, Spain. Electronic address: isidromartinez@me.com.
2 Trauma and Emergency Surgery Unit, General Surgery Department, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Sevilla, Spain.
3 Division of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden.
4 Chief of Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery, Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery, Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Chair, Research Committee, European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery (ESTES).
5 Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Center for PPerioperativeOutcomes Research and Transformation (CPORT), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
6 School of Medical Sciences, Orebro University, Sweden.
7 Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Corporal Michael Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA.
8 Department of Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
9 Department of General Surgery, Trieste University Hospital, Trieste, Italy.
10 Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Surgery, Orebro University, Sweden.
11 Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, IRCCS, Milano, Italy.
12 General Surgery Division. Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio, Sevilla, Spain.
13 Centro Hospitalar Tondela, Viseu, Portugal.
14 School of Medical Sciences, Orebro University, Sweden; Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
15 Helsinki University Hospital HUS Meilahden Tornisairaala, Helsinki, Finland.
16 Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Medical University, Bahrain.
17 Hospital Universitario Son Espases, Mallorca, Spain.
18 Hospital General Universitario de Ciudad Real, Ciudad Real, Spain.
19 Hospital Universitario Son Llàtzer, Mallorca, Spain.
20 Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain.
21 Infanta Sofía University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
22 Hospital Universitario de La Ribera, Valencia, Spain.
23 Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Dr Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.