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ArticlePaediatrics & child health2019

Parental preferences on diagnostic imaging tests for paediatric appendicitis.

Claudia Martinez-Rios, Jennifer R McKinney, Nadine Al-Aswad, Arvind K Shergill, Ada F Louffat, Lillian Sung, Karen E Thomas, Suzanne Schuh, George Tomlinson, Rahim Moineddin and 1 more

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Claudia Martinez-RiosDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8591-9822
Jennifer R McKinneyDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Nadine Al-AswadDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Arvind K ShergillDepartment of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Ada F LouffatDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Lillian SungDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Haematology-Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Karen E ThomasDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Suzanne SchuhDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
George TomlinsonDepartment of Medical Imaging, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Rahim MoineddinDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Andrea S DoriaDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Abstract

objectivesTo determine parental preferences for diagnostic imaging tests (DITs) for paediatric appendicitis, to rank the attributes impacting the DIT selection and to identify DIT attributes that would cause parents to switch their DIT.

methodsParents of children who had an abdominal ultrasound (US) for right lower quadrant pain were interviewed. Two DITs were compared at a time, parents were asked to indicate their preferred test and to rank its attributes according to the impact each attribute had on their selection. The strength of their preference for the chosen DIT was measured by systematically adjusting attributes of the chosen DIT until the parent changed their choice.

resultsFifty parents were interviewed. For US versus CT, more parents preferred US (68%, P=0.02) with higher importance ranks for cancer risk (P<0.0001), test accuracy (P=0.04), pain during test (P=0.3), and scan length (P<0.0001); and lower ranks for sedation (P=0.02), intravenous (IV) (P<0.02), and oral contrast (P=0.06). For US versus MRI, parents preferred MRI (78%, P<0.0001) with higher importance ranks for accuracy (P=0.2), pain during test (P=0.06), and scan length (P=0.06); and lower for noise (P<0.0001), claustrophobia (P<0.0001), use of IV contrast (P=0.06), and sedation (P=0.2).

conclusionUS and MRI were the DIT preferred by parents for the investigation of acute paediatric appendicitis.

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AppendicitisChildrenComputed tomographyMagnetic resonance imagingParentsPatient-centredPreferencesRadiologyUltrasound

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PMID31239812
PMCPMC6587414

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