NCT01081054

Hospitalization or Ambulatory Treatment of Acute Diverticulitis

Randomized Trial Comparing Two Treatment Strategies for Acute Diverticulitis. Hospitalization or Ambulatory Antibiotic Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 132 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of 01DIVER is to evaluate efficacy and safety of a home treatment protocol for non complicated diverticulitis compared with management in the hospital. The hypothesis is that a ambulatory treatment with oral antibiotic and progressive introduction of diet is not inferior to the conservative management in hospital in patients with acute not complicated sigmoid diverticulitis, shown by contrast enhanced CT scan. Patients are prospectively randomized to conservative antibiotic treatment either to ambulatory or to hospital treatment.

Conditions

• Diverticulitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Ambulatory versus hospitalisation	Patients are treated with the same antibiotic agent, the difference between the two arms is endovenous treatment for hospitalized patients for the first days till oral feeding. The ambulatory group starts directly with orally administered antibiotic treatment.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-06-01
• Completion: 2012-06-01
• First posted: 2010-03-05
• Last updated: 2012-06-12

Locations

5 sites across 1 country: Spain