From: Does access to care affect outcomes of appendicitis in children? - a population-based cohort study
District Health Council (DHC) | Percent Rural | Positive Appendectomy | Negative Appendectomy | Perforated Appendicitis | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  | Number of Appendectomy Per Year †| Sex- Adjusted Rate ‡ | Number of Appendectomy Per Year †| Sex- Adjusted Rate ‡ | Number of Appendectomy Per Year †| Sex- Adjusted Rate ‡ |
sorted by ascending rank order of rural to urban) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Grey, Bruce, Huron, Perth | 82 | 84.4 | 102.2 | 14.3 | 17.1 | 30.3 | 36.9 |
Muskoka, Nipissing, Parry Sound & Timiskaming | 74 | 70.4 | 122.6* | 15.0 | 26.0*** | 23.3 | 40.8 |
Quinte, Kingston, Rideau | 39 | 133.0 | 107.8 | 15.6 | 12.3 | 15.6 | 29.5 |
Algoma, Cochrane, Manitoulin & Sudbury | 37 | 115.9 | 98.4 | 16.1 | 13.6 | 36.9 | 31.8 |
Grand River | 32 | 75.9 | 115.4 | 12.4 | 18.7 | 24.5 | 37.5 |
Northwestern Ontario | 29 | 80.3 | 112.0 | 12.3 | 17.1 | 27.3 | 38.2 |
Waterloo Region-Wellington-Dufferin | 23 | 186.8 | 106.0 | 32.4 | 18.4 | 65.8 | 37.3 |
Thames Valley | 23 | 142.6 | 91.9 | 22.0 | 14.2 | 50.4 | 32.5 |
Essex, Kent, and Lambton | 20 | 142.5 | 87.3 | 15.0 | 9.1 | 39.5 | 24.4 |
Durham, Haliburton, Kawartha & Pine Ridge | 19 | 236.9 | 110.5** | 47.1 | 22.2*** | 76.4 | 35.7 |
Champlain | 16 | 262.0 | 100.5 | 24.8 | 9.5 | 78.6 | 30.1 |
Simcoe-York | 9 | 243.6 | 88.3 | 32.4 | 11.7 | 93.4 | 33.7 |
Niagara Region | 3 | 77.5 | 74.5* | 12.8 | 12.3 | 24.4 | 23.6 |
Halton-Peel | 0 | 283.3 | 83.2 | 38.0 | 11.1 | 95.6 | 28.0 |
Hamilton-Wentworth | 0 | 96.6 | 80.4 | 8.3 | 6.8 | 38.0 | 31.6 |
Metropolitan Toronto | 0 | 427.5 | 81.4** | 59.1 | 11.3 | 152.0 | 28.9 |
Province-wide Age and Sex Adjusted Rate | Â | Â | 93.20 | Â | 13.19 | Â | 31.29 |
SMALL AREA VARIATION SUMMARY STATISTICS | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | |
Extremal Quotient [EQ] | Â | Â | 1.65 | Â | 3.80 | Â | 1.73 |
Ratio of Third Quartile over First Quartile | Â | Â | 1.28 | Â | 1.59 | Â | 1.27 |
Coefficient of Variation | Â | Â | 13.09 | Â | 32.04 | Â | 12.95 |
Systematic Component of Variation | Â | Â | 15.63 | Â | 87.74 | Â | -0.10 |