Antibiotics Only for Appendicitis?

Affiliations

¹ Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH; Department of Emergency Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH. Electronic address: swerner@metrohealth.org.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Emergency Medicine, LAC + USC, Los Angeles, CA.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco-Fresno, Fresno, CA.

Comment

Sandra Werner et al. Ann Emerg Med. 2017 Jul.

. 2017 Jul;70(1):12-14.

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2017.05.003.

¹ Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH; Department of Emergency Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH. Electronic address: swerner@metrohealth.org.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Emergency Medicine, LAC + USC, Los Angeles, CA.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco-Fresno, Fresno, CA.

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Antibiotics-First Versus Surgery for Appendicitis: A US Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Allowing Outpatient Antibiotic Management.
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