Outpatient treatment of acute diverticulitis: Rates and predictors of failure

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 861-865

  Etzioni, David A ^a,b,c   Chiu, Vicki Y ^d   Cannom, Rebecca R ^a,e   Burchette, Raoul J ^d   Haigh, Philip I ^e   Abbas, Maher A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Kaiser Permanente Southern California   (United States)

^e Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Colon and rectal surgery; Diverticulitis; Emergency department evaluation triage; Surgical decision making

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; METRONIDAZOLE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON PERFORATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT CARE; PHLEGMON; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT FAILURE; ACUTE DISEASE; AMBULATORY CARE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953260772     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181cdb243     Document Type: Article

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