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Hospitalization or Ambulatory Treatment of Acute Diverticulitis

NCT01081054 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 132

Last updated 2012-06-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of 01DIVER is to evaluate efficacy and safety of a home treatment protocol for non complicated diverticulitis compared with management in the hospital. The hypothesis is that a ambulatory treatment with oral antibiotic and progressive introduction of diet is not inferior to the conservative management in hospital in patients with acute not complicated sigmoid diverticulitis, shown by contrast enhanced CT scan. Patients are prospectively randomized to conservative antibiotic treatment either to ambulatory or to hospital treatment.

Conditions

  • Diverticulitis

Interventions

OTHER

Ambulatory versus hospitalisation

Patients are treated with the same antibiotic agent, the difference between the two arms is endovenous treatment for hospitalized patients for the first days till oral feeding. The ambulatory group starts directly with orally administered antibiotic treatment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sebastiano Biondo, MD, PhD · Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-09-30
Primary Completion
2012-06-30
Completion
2012-06-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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