Al Mansouri 2019.
Study name | Outpatient treatment of uncomplicated diverticulitis with either antibiotic or nonantibiotic treatment (MUD) |
Methods | Randomised controlled trial, quadruple‐masking (participant, care provider, investigator, outcomes assessor) |
Participants | 40 |
Interventions | No‐antibiotic versus antibiotic |
Outcomes |
Primary: recruitment rate Secondary: median visual analogue pain scores at 7 days and treatment failures (defined as persistence, increase or recurrence of abdominal pain and/or fever, inflammatory bowel obstruction, need for radiological abscess drainage or immediate surgery due to complicated diverticulitis, need for hospital admission, and mortality during the first 60 days after discharge) |
Starting date | April 9, 2018 |
Contact information | sarah.samfaris@gmail.com |
Notes | MUD trial, registered on clinical trials register May 9 2017 Al‐Mansouri 2019: conference abstract for NCT03146091 at 2019 Scientific Session of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, SAGES. United States |