Chewing Gum Facilitates an Earlier Return to Bowel Function in Pediatric Scoliosis Patients: A Prospective Randomized Study
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Official title
The Use of Chewing Gum Reduces Post-operative Ileus and Gastrointestinal Complications in Pediatric Scoliosis Patients.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02165436
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Lead sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Other
- Enrollment
- 83 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Chewing gum Other
- Control Other
Other
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 10 Years to 18 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jun 30, 2009
- Primary completion
- Jun 30, 2013
- Completion
- Jun 30, 2013
- Last update posted
- Jun 16, 2014
2009 – 2013
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Hospital of Alabama | Birmingham | Alabama | 35233 | — |
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- Last update posted Jun 16, 2014 · Synced May 8, 2026
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