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Clinical Trial for a Outpatient Clinical Management of Urgent Laparoscopic Appendectomy

NCT05401188 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2022-06-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of outpatient management of uncomplicated acute appendicitis. For this purpose, a randomized clinical trial was designed. Selected patients who have undergone surgery for acute appendicitis are randomized into two groups. One group with hospitalization and another group without admission.

Conditions

  • Appendicitis Acute
  • Appendicitis

Interventions

OTHER

Outpatient

Once the patient was operated and an uncomplicated appendicitis was confirmed, the patient was randomized to one of the two experimental branches: the hospitalization group (HG) or outpatient group (OG). Patients in the OG were referred to the day-surgery unit where they were discharged according to ALDRETE criteria.

OTHER

hospitalization

Once the patient was operated and an uncomplicated appendicitis was confirmed, the patient was randomized to one of the two experimental branches: the hospitalization group (HG) or outpatient group (OG). In this group, were admitted in the hospitalization ward.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital Universitari Joan XXIII de Tarragona.

    collaborator OTHER

  • HJ23

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Jordi Elvira Lopez, MD · HJ23

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-06-01
Primary Completion
2021-06-01
Completion
2022-01-01

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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