Treatment of elderly patients with uncomplicated diverticulitis, even with comorbidity, at home

Out-Patient Management of Mild or Uncomplicated Diverticulitis: A Systematic Review

“…1 ). A total of 10 studies met the inclusion criteria for narrative synthesis [1,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] . There was a high risk of selection, performance and detection bias in all studies except one [1] ( fig.…”

“…One of the 10 studies was an RCT [1] , with the remaining 9 studies having non-randomized designs [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] . Nine studies were carried out as singlecentre studies [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] , while only the RCT was a multicentre study [1] .…”

“…One of the 10 studies was an RCT [1] , with the remaining 9 studies having non-randomized designs [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] . Nine studies were carried out as singlecentre studies [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] , while only the RCT was a multicentre study [1] . Seven studies including the RCT reported on outcomes of ambulatory antibiotic treatment in UD in comparison to an in-patient cohort [1,12,13,[17][18][19][20] .…”

“…They also did not exclude patients based on the location of diverticulitis in bowel. The combined study period in the included studies was from 2006 to 2014 [1,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] .…”

“…Nine studies were carried out as singlecentre studies [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] , while only the RCT was a multicentre study [1] . Seven studies including the RCT reported on outcomes of ambulatory antibiotic treatment in UD in comparison to an in-patient cohort [1,12,13,[17][18][19][20] . The remaining 3 studies reported on ambulatory treatment alone in case series of patients with no in-patient group for comparison [14][15][16] .…”