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cord-302526-g70hhisy	English, W.	Investigation and management of suspected appendicitis during the COVID‐19 pandemic	2020-07-13		.txt	text/plain	664	54	50	authors: English, W.; Habib Bedwani, N.; Smith, C.; Shatkar, V. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in widespread change to the organization and delivery of emergency general surgery services in the United Kingdom 1,2 . We prospectively collected data on the investigation and management of patients with suspected appendicitis between 26 March and 6 May 2020. We retrospectively collected data on patients undergoing appendicectomy (28 February -25 March 2020) to compare our operative approach and histology. Our primary outcome was to determine if SARS CoV-2 diagnosis altered the management of appendicitis, secondary outcomes included; negative appendicectomy rate (NAR), length of stay (LOS) and readmission rate. There was a difference in LOS between patients undergoing conservative versus operative management for appendicitis (1 versus 3 days; P = 0⋅066 non-significant). The COVID-19 pandemic has placed an unprecedented demand on health services demonstrating a need for data on its effect on surgical care and outcomes 6 .	./cache/cord-302526-g70hhisy.txt	./txt/cord-302526-g70hhisy.txt