Abbreviations:
ACUTE PANCREATITIS
acute pancreatitisBedside Index for Severity in Acute PancreatitisData Safety Monitoring Committeeemergency roomhealth-related quality of lifequality of lifeVisual Analogue ScaleThe present study protocol (Version 8.0 – March 2, 2023) was approved by the Bellvitge University Hospital Institutional Review Board (Barcelona, Spain) – code PR129/22, on March 9, 2023). The study findings will be submitted to peer-reviewed journals and presented at relevant national and international scientific meetings.This research was awarded a grant by the Spanish Gastroenterology Society (AEG), which will be used to cover study-related costs. These include the costs of open access publication. The costs of the surgical procedures and the complementary tests will be paid by the Catalan Institute of Health and will not incur on any additional costs. The investigators will receive no economic compensation for carrying out the study.The written informed consent and the patient information sheet are available as supplementary materials (see Material 1, Supplemental Digital Content, Currently, we do not intend to carry out any ancillary studies. If any future studies are planned to be carried out later using the anonymized stored data, a new protocol should be made, and a new IRB approval should be sought.The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available, but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.Supplemental Digital Content is available for this article.How to cite this article: Sorribas M, Carnaval T, Peláez N, Secanella L, Salord S, Sarret S, Videla S, Busquets J. Home monitoring vs hospitalization for mild acute pancreatitis. A pilot randomized controlled clinical trials. Medicine 2023;102:20(e33853).ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05473260.