Randomized trial of Alvarado score and antibiotics therapy as a corporate protocol versus conventional clinical management for acute appendicitis
Completed
- Conditions
- Acute appendicitisDigestive System
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN23935876
- Lead Sponsor
- Bahman Hospital (Iran)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 188
Inclusion Criteria
1. Older than 6 years
2. Admitted initially for the current abdominal pain
Exclusion Criteria
1. Generalized peritonitis
2. Suspected of having any abdominal mass or any abdominal involvement of degenerative or systemic diseases
3. Evidence of any mental disturbances, acute confusional state, or dementia
4. Already have any imaging document including plain radiography, ultrasonography, or computed tomographic scan
5. Patients, children?s parent(s), or admitting surgeon repudiate entry into the study
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Time to surgery, from randomization to skin preparation in hours<br>2. Duration of hospitalization, from randomization to discharge from hospital or emergency service (for out-patients) in hours
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Admission rate<br>2. Operation rate<br>3. Nontherapeutic surgeries rate (surgery is called therapeutic when it finds the cause of patient?s pain and it is pertinent to cure the problem)<br>4. Perforation with late treatment (PLT) rate (treatment that begins at least 10 hours after randomization is considered late)