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ReviewCurrent problems in surgery2020

Diverticulitis: An Update From the Age Old Paradigm.

Alexander T Hawkins, Paul E Wise, Tiffany Chan, Janet T Lee, Tamara Glyn, Verity Wood, Timothy Eglinton, Frank Frizelle, Adil Khan, Jason Hall and 15 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Current problems in surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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  6. Genetic Risk, Healthy Lifestyle, and Risk Stratification for Diverticulitis.Journal of the American College of Surgeons · 2026
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  13. Risk Prediction in Diverticulitis.Clinics in colon and rectal surgery · 2025
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  14. Unusual Variations and Atypical Presentations of Diverticulitis.Clinics in colon and rectal surgery · 2025
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  17. Unmet social needs and diverticulitis: a phenotyping algorithm and cross-sectional analysis.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025
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  18. What influences emergency general surgeons' treatment preferences for patients requiring nutritional support? A discrete choice experiment.Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

25 authors.

Alexander T HawkinsSection of Colon & Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN. Electronic address: alex.hawkins@vumc.org.
Paul E WiseDepartment of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Tiffany ChanUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Janet T LeeDepartment of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN.
Tamara GlynUniversity of Otago, Christchurch Hospital, Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Verity WoodChristchurch Hospital, Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Timothy EglintonDepartment of Surgery, University of Otago, Christchurch Hospital, Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Frank FrizelleDepartment of Surgery, University of Otago, Christchurch Hospital, Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Adil KhanRaleigh General Hospital, Beckley, WV.
Jason HallDempsey Center for Digestive Disorders, Department of Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA.
M I Mohammed IlyasDepartment of Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Maria MichailidouNorthern Light Health, Bangor, ME.
Valentine N NfonsamDepartment of Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Michelle L CowanDepartment of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Jennifer WilliamsEmory University, Atlanta, GA.
Scott R SteeleDigestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Oh.
Karim AlaviDivision of Colorectal Surgery, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA.
C Tyler EllisDepartment of Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
Danielle CollinsWestern General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Des C WinterSt. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Karen ZaghiyanCedars-Sanai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Gaetano GalloDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Michele CarvelloColon and Rectal Surgery Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCS, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milano, Italy.
Antonino SpinelliColon and Rectal Surgery Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCS, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milano, Italy.
Amy L LightnerDepartment of Colorectal Surgery, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.

Funding

Novel Assessment of the Role of Surgery in Recurrent DiverticulitisK23DK118192 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI HAWKINS, ALEXANDER THARRINGTON · 2018 to 2022
$788k
NIDDK NIH HHS K23 DK118192
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Digestive System Surgical ProceduresDisease ManagementAge FactorsColonoscopyDiagnostic ImagingDiverticulitis, ColonicHumansRisk Factors

Identifiers

PMID33077029
PMCPMC7575828

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