Preparing the bowel for surgery: rethinking the strategy.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. A meta-analysis of the effects of preoperative mechanical intestinal preparation and oral antibiotics on surgical site infection after rectal tumor resection.Updates in surgery · 2026
   Pooled it
2. Preoperative combined mechanical and oral antibiotic bowel preparation for preventing complications in elective colorectal surgery.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
   Pooled it
3. Mechanical and oral antibiotic bowel preparation versus no bowel preparation in right and left colectomy: subgroup analysis of MOBILE trial.BJS open · 2021
   Trial
4. Oral antibiotic prophylaxis induces changes in the microbiology of surgical site infection after colorectal surgery. A matched comparative study.Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland · 2025
   Article
5. Mechanical Preparation of the Colon before Colorectal Surgery - Is It Still Actual?Maedica · 2024
   Article
6. Pre-Operative Mechanical Bowel Preparation Does Not Affect the Impact of Anastomosis Leakage in Left-Side Colorectal Surgery-A Single Center Observational Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
   Article
7. Does mechanical bowel preparation really prevent complications after colorectal surgery depending on the lesion localization? A myth or fact?Turkish journal of surgery · 2023
   Article
8. Oral Antibiotic Prophylaxis Lowers Surgical Site Infection in Elective Colorectal Surgery: Results of a Pragmatic Cohort Study in Catalonia.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021
   Article
9. Engineering the Microbiome to Prevent Adverse Events: Challenges and Opportunities.Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology · 2021
   Review
10. Intestinal Microbiota in Colorectal Cancer Surgery.Cancers · 2020
    Review
11. The use of oral antibiotics and mechanical bowel preparation in elective colorectal resection for the reduction of surgical site infection.Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland · 2020
    Article
12. Examining the Role of Microbiota-Centered Interventions in Cancer Therapeutics: Applications for Urothelial Carcinoma.Technology in cancer research & treatment
    Review

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  Mechanical and oral antibiotic bowel preparation versus no bowel preparation for elective colectomy (MOBILE): a multicentre, randomised, parallel, single-blinded trial.2019

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