Incidence of Appendicitis over Time: A Comparative Analysis of an Administrative Healthcare Database and a Pathology-Proven Appendicitis Registry

• Stephanie Coward ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie Coward, Hashim Kareemi, Gilaad G. Kaplan

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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• Hashim Kareemi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie Coward, Hashim Kareemi, Gilaad G. Kaplan

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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• Fiona Clement,

  Affiliation Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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• Scott Zimmer,

  Affiliation Information Management and Dissemination, Medicine, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Elijah Dixon,

  Affiliations Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, Department of Surgery, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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• Chad G. Ball,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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• Steven J. Heitman,

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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• Mark Swain,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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• Subrata Ghosh,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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• Gilaad G. Kaplan

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie Coward, Hashim Kareemi, Gilaad G. Kaplan

  * E-mail: ggkaplan@ucalgary.ca

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2719-0556

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