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A Randomized Blinded Trial of Abscess Management With Packing vs No Packing

NCT01698996 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2015-03-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Adult patients presenting to the emergency department with superficial cutaneous abscesses will be randomized after incision and drainage to standard care with wound packing or no packing to determine if there is a difference in the proportion of complications between the two groups.

Conditions

  • Uncomplicated Cutaneous Abscess

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Packing vs No Packing

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Amit P Shah, MD · London Health Sciences Centre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-03-31
Primary Completion
2016-03-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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