2017 MOC Part 4 Survey: Time to appendectomy and risk of perforation in acute appendicitis

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Thank you for choosing SCOAP to complete your quality improvement initiative fulfillment as part of the American Board of Surgery's (ABS) requirements for a fourth part to the Maintenance of Certification (MOC Part 4)!

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* 1. Please complete the following Contact Information so that we may track your fulfillment of the MOC Part 4 requirements:

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* 2. It was our objective, using data from the Washington State Surgical Care and Outcomes Assessment Program (SCOAP), to evaluate the relationship between perforation in acute appendicitis and the amount of time patients wait for surgery after arriving at the hospital.

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False

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* 3. Seven thousand five hundred five patients had complete data for time of hospital admission and OR start. Time to treatment comparisons were made to include: (choose 3 that apply)

a. Time from presentation to imaging

b. Time from patient’s prehospital courses to admission

c. Entire time elapsed from admission to OR

d. Time from imaging to OR

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* 4. In conclusion, perforation was not associated with elapsed time from hospital presentation to OR start, among adult patients admitted for appendectomy across a large number of diverse hospitals.

True

False