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Query: UMLS:C0085693 (acute appendicitis)
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A 29-year-old man had abdominal pain for 24 hours. This and the results of an abdominal examination were typical of acute appendicitis. He had suffered sinusitis for two weeks. At operation, the appendix was normal; there was an abscess in the cecal wall, the exudate of which grew pneumococci. Incidental appendectomy was done and the patient was treated successfully with lincomycin hydrochloride, and later, cephalexin monohydrate. It is possible that the typhlitis was secondary to the upper respiratory infection.
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PMID:A case of pneumococcal typhlitis. 0 28

A written simulation of patient-doctor encounters is described, involving five patients with vague complaints, an 'instruction' patient with sinusitis and a 'test' patient with acute appendicitis. Nineteen general practitioners were confronted with it. The extent to which the simulation distorted reality and the implications of such distortions were considered in an attempt to assess the content validity. The conclusion was that the simulation gave a realistic impression of the general practitioners' diagnostic and therapeutic approach to patients with vague complaints. The searching procedures in relation to the complaint and the patient's perception of the complaint were adequately depicted, and the therapeutic procedures approximated closely to reality. There was some distortion in the attention paid to psychosocial aspects as these were given more attention in the simulation than they receive in reality.
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PMID:Written simulation of patient-doctor encounters. 1. Research instrument for registration of the performance of general practitioners. 653 57