The North Wilkesboro commissioners unanimously voted Nov. 30 to continue reinvesting money earned in the town’s 30-year lease of Wilkes Medical Center to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.
Objective To assess the clinical and cost effectiveness of conservative management compared with laparoscopic cholecystectomy for the prevention of symptoms and complications in adults with uncomplicated symptomatic gallstone disease.
Design Parallel group, pragmatic randomised, superiority trial.
Setting 20 secondary care centres in the UK.
Participants 434 adults (>18 years) with uncomplicated symptomatic gallstone disease referred to secondary care, assessed for eligibility between August 2016 and November 2019, and randomly assigned (1:1) to receive conservative management or laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Interventions Conservative management or surgical removal of the gallbladder.
Main outcome measures The primary patient outcome was quality of life, measured by area under the curve, over 18 months using the short form 36 (SF-36) bodily pain domain, with higher scores (range 0-100) indicating better quality of life. Other outcomes included costs to the NHS, quality adjuste
Merchants in downtown North Wilkesboro will soon have the ability to validate customer parking tickets, after the town board weighed in on the matter Nov. 14.
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