ESTIMATION OF INFORMATION MEASURES OF CLINICAL DATA IN DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF APPENDICULAR PERITONITIS IN CHILDREN

Taking into consideration a necessity of fast pre-operational diagnosis of appendicular peritonitis in children, we have made the multivariate statistical analysis of clinical variables in child before laboratory data. Calculation of total information measures according to S. Kullback (J) allowed to make differential diagnosis of general and localized peritonitis with sensitivity 82.1 % and specificity 87.1 %.