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Intravenous Versus Oral Antibiotics for the Prevention of Treatment Failure in Children With Complicated Appendicitis

DOI

33

Citations

20

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2016

Year

Shawn J. Rangel, Brett R. Anderson, Rajendu Srivastava, Samir S. Shah, Paul Ishimine, Mythili Srinivasan, Matthew Bryan, Wu Gong, Matt Hall, Russell Localio,
Annals of Surgery

Abstract

Compared with oral antibiotics, use of intravenous antibiotics after discharge in children with complicated appendicitis was associated with higher rates of both treatment failure and all-cause hospital revisits.

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