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- Title
Treating Appendicitis Without Surgery.
- Authors
Livingston, Edward; Vons, Corrine
- Abstract
The authors comment on a randomized clinical trial published within the issue which examined the effect of antibiotics for treating computed tomography (CT)-confirmed uncomplicated appendicitis instead of surgery. Topics covered include several limitations of the study designed as a noninferiority study, the need for future studies to identify how much worse than appendectomy antibiotic treatment of appendicitis must be before rejecting appendectomy with antibiotic treatment.
- Subjects
RANDOMIZED controlled trials; APPENDICITIS treatment; ANTIBIOTICS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX surgery
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2015, Vol 313, Issue 23, p2327
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2015.6266