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Table 4 Intervention/complication for POCUS and formal imaging

From: Point-of-care ultrasound for the detection of hydronephrosis in emergency department patients with suspected renal colic

 

Intervention/complication

No intervention/ complication

Risk (95% CI)

Relative risk (95% CI)

POCUS

 Positive

22

163

11.83% (7.56, 17.36)

3.13 (1.30, 7.53)

 Negative/indeterminate

6

153

3.77% (1.40, 8.03)

 

POCUS

 Positive/indeterminate

23

179

11.39% (7.36, 16.59)

3.23 (1.26, 8.30)

 Negative

5

137

3.52% (1.15, 8.03)

 

Formal imaging

 Positive

26

153

14.53% (9.71, 20.55)

11.98 (2.89, 49.70)

 Negative

2

163

1.21% (0.15, 4.31)

 
  1. Patients were positive for intervention/complication if they had any one of the following at 30 days follow-up—lithotripsy, stent, percutaneous nephrostomy, sepsis, hospital admission or death
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