Appendicitis in Children: Evaluation of the Pediatric Appendicitis Score in Younger and Older Children

Table 5

Hospital stay and complications.

	≥4 years	<4 years	value
Days of in-patient care (mean (range), days)	3.1 (1–35)	7.5 (1–20)	0.000^*
Complications ( (%))	13 (12.7)	4 (20.0)	0.478^**

: numbers; ^*Mann-Whitney -test, two-tailed; ^**Fisher’s exact test, two-tailed.