This is the Scientific Surgery Archive, which contains all randomized clinical trials in surgery that have been identified by searching the top 50 English language medical journal issues since January 1998. Compiled by Jonothan J. Earnshaw, former Editor-in-Chief, BJS
Role of antibiotic therapy in mild acute calculus cholecystitis: a prospective randomised controlled trial. World J Surg 2012; 36: 1750-1759.
Published: 11th February 2013
Authors: Mazeh H, Mizrahi I, Dior U, Simanovsky N, Shapiro M, Freund HR et al. et al.
Conclusion
The use of antibiotics did not affect the duration of hospital stay (3.9 versus 3.8 days with no antibiotics, P=0.89) or the readmission rate (19 versus 13 per cent, P=0.73) in this study that included 84 patients.
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