A Randomized Trial Comparing Antibiotics with Appendectomy for Appendicitis.

, David R Flum¹, Giana H Davidson¹+50

• ¹The affiliations of the members of the writing committee are as follows: the University of Washington (D.R.F., G.H.D., S.M., A.K.S., E.F., D.C.L., B.A.C., P.J.H., L.G.K.), the Washington State Hospital Association (B.B.), Harborview Medical Center (H.E., J.C.), the Swedish Medical Center (K.A.M.), and the Virginia Mason Medical Center (J.T.Y., A.W.), Seattle, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma (V.S., K.M.), and Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, Everett (C.S.F., S.M.S.) - all in Washington; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (N.I.S., S.R.O.) and Boston University Medical Center (S.E.S., F.T.D.) - both in Boston; Columbia University Medical Center (K.F.), Tisch Hospital, NYU Langone Medical Center (P.A.-C., W.C.), Bellevue Hospital Center, NYU School of Medicine (P.A.-C., W.C.), and Weill Cornell Medical Center (R.J.W., S.C.) - all in New York; Henry Ford Health, Detroit (J.J., J.H.P.), and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (H.B.A., P.K.P.); University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City (B.A.F., D.A.S.); the University of Texas Lyndon B. Johnson Medical Center (M.K.L.) and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (L.S.K.) - both in Houston; the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson (M.E.K.); Maine Medical Center, Portland (B.C., D.W.C.); Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus (A.R., S.S.); Rush University Medical Center, Chicago (T.P.P.); UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, Denver (L.F., M.S.); Harbor UCLA Medical Center (D.A.D., A.H.K.), Olive View UCLA Medical Center (G.J.M., D.S., A.K.), and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (D.A.T.) - all in Los Angeles; and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville (C.M.T., W.H.S.).