Observational versus antibiotic treatment for uncomplicated diverticulitis: an individual-patient data meta-analysis.

CONCLUSION: Observational management of acute uncomplicated diverticulitis is safe. Some statistical uncertainty remains, depending on the thresholds of clinical relevance, owing to small differences, but no subgroup that would benefit from antibiotic treatment was apparent. PMID: 32073652 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The British Journal of Surgery - February 18, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: van Dijk ST, Chabok A, Dijkgraaf MG, Boermeester MA, Smedh K Tags: Br J Surg Source Type: research