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NCT05002829: CASA RELAX
Restricted or Liberal Antibiotics After Appendectomy - Denver Health
NA trial testing Restricted Duration of SOC Antibiotic Use in Appendicitis in 657 participants. Completed in 16 July 2025.
16 July 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Denver Health and Hospital Authority |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 657 |
| Start date | 1 November 2021 |
| Primary completion | 16 July 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 16 July 2025 |
| Sites | 1 location across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Restricted Duration of SOC Antibiotic Use
- Liberal Duration of SOC Antibiotic Use
Conditions studied
- Appendicitis — all drugs for Appendicitis →
Sponsor
Denver Health and Hospital Authority
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Appendicitis. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
The purpose of this study is to see if decreasing the amount of antibiotics after appendicitis surgery can decrease the risk of adverse effects associated with antibiotics while at the same time ensuring participant safety.
Publications & conference data
1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Complex And Simple Appendicitis: REstrictive or Liberal postoperative Antibiotic eXposure (CASA RELAX) using Desirability of Outcome Ranking (DOOR) and Response Adjusted for Duration of Antibiotic Risk (RADAR): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
Yeh DD, Hatton GE, Pedroza C, Pust G, et al · · 2022 · cited 2× · PMID 36148315 · DOI 10.1136/tsaco-2022-000931
Verify or expand the search:
- PubMed search for NCT05002829
- Europe PMC full search
- ASCO Meeting Library
- ESMO Meeting Library
- bioRxiv preprints
- medRxiv preprints
- Google Scholar
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05002829 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Denver Health and Hospital Authority
- Last refreshed: 31 October 2025
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