Association of treatments for acute appendicitis with pregnancy outcomes in the United States from 2000 to 2016: Results from a multi-level analysis

• Jianzhou Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jianzhou Yang, Shi Wu Wen

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, Shanxi, China, OMNI Research Group, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Shi Wu Wen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jianzhou Yang, Shi Wu Wen

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliations OMNI Research Group, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Daniel Krewski,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliations School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Risk Sciences International, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Daniel J. Corsi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations OMNI Research Group, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Mark Walker,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations OMNI Research Group, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Donald Mattison,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Risk Sciences International, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

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• Ryan Moog,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

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• Doug McNair,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0965-883X

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• Huiping Huang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infection Control, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xia Men University, Xiamen, Fujian, China

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• Guihua Zhuang

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  * E-mail: zhuanggh@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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