Antibiotics for appendicitis: 3 unintended consequences

A Finnish group randomized patients with acute appendicitis to surgery and antibiotics and found that antibiotics were successful in 73 percent of patients. Depending on how this is framed, you can celebrate a 70  percent success or lament a 30 percent failure. Much of the debate in health care is a battle of framing.  The study […]

via Medicine Joint Channels