Very proud of our recent paper on #epi of #appendicitis just published in @JAMASurgery | ja.ma/2wHn6p2 | Thankful to my collaborators @ReeceGeo, @SESanchezMD, & @DaveFlum | Thankful to @BMCSurgery & the Tauber Fam Foundation who gave me time to work on it. Thread 1/11 Most (not all, of course) papers written on appendicitis in last 10-20 yrs have been based on proportions: # cases w perforation / # cases of appendicitis [including several studies by yours truly!]. But this metric requires a big assumption … 2/11