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. 2022 Jun 22;2022(6):CD009092. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009092.pub3

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