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The prevalence of gallstones in the adult population is estimated to be approximately 10\u201315%, and around 80% remain asymptomatic. At present, cholecystectomy is the default option for people with symptomatic gallstone disease.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objectives<\/jats:title>\n To assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness of observation\/conservative management compared with laparoscopic cholecystectomy for preventing recurrent symptoms and complications in adults presenting with uncomplicated symptomatic gallstones in secondary care.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Design<\/jats:title>\n Parallel group, multicentre patient randomised superiority pragmatic trial with up to 24 months follow-up and embedded qualitative research. Within-trial cost\u2013utility and 10-year Markov model analyses. Development of a core outcome set for uncomplicated symptomatic gallstone disease.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Setting<\/jats:title>\n Secondary care elective settings.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Participants<\/jats:title>\n Adults with symptomatic uncomplicated gallstone disease referred to a secondary care setting were considered for inclusion.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Interventions<\/jats:title>\n Participants were randomised 1: 1 at clinic to receive either laparoscopic cholecystectomy or observation\/conservative management.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Main outcome measures<\/jats:title>\n The primary outcome was quality of life measured by area under the curve over 18 months using the Short Form-36 bodily pain domain. Secondary outcomes included the Otago gallstones\u2019 condition-specific questionnaire, Short Form-36 domains (excluding bodily pain), area under the curve over 24 months for Short Form-36 bodily pain domain, persistent symptoms, complications and need for further treatment. No outcomes were blinded to allocation.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n Between August 2016 and November 2019, 434 participants were randomised (217 in each group) from 20 United Kingdom centres. By 24 months, 64 (29.5%) in the observation\/conservative management group and 153 (70.5%) in the laparoscopic cholecystectomy group had received surgery, median time to surgery of 9.0 months (interquartile range, 5.6\u201315.0) and 4.7 months (interquartile range 2.6\u20137.9), respectively.<\/jats:p>\n \n At 18 months, the mean Short Form-36 norm-based bodily pain score was 49.4 (standard deviation 11.7) in the observation\/conservative management group and 50.4 (standard deviation 11.6) in the laparoscopic cholecystectomy group. The mean area under the curve over 18 months was 46.8 for both groups with no difference: mean difference \u20130.0, 95% confidence interval (\u20131.7 to 1.7);\n p<\/jats:italic>\n -value 0.996;\n n<\/jats:italic>\n \u2005=\u2005203 observation\/conservative,\n n<\/jats:italic>\n \u2005=\u2005205 cholecystectomy.\n <\/jats:p>\n \n There was no evidence of differences in quality of life, complications or need for further treatment at up to 24 months follow-up. Condition-specific quality of life at 24 months favoured cholecystectomy: mean difference 9.0, 95% confidence interval (4.1 to 14.0),\n p<\/jats:italic>\n \u2005<\u20050.001 with a similar pattern for the persistent symptoms score.\n <\/jats:p>\n Within-trial cost\u2013utility analysis found observation\/conservative management over 24 months was less costly than cholecystectomy (mean difference \u2013\u00a31033). A non-significant quality-adjusted life-year difference of \u20130.019 favouring cholecystectomy resulted in an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of \u00a355,235. The Markov model continued to favour observation\/conservative management, but some scenarios reversed the findings due to uncertainties in longer-term quality of life.<\/jats:p>\n The core outcome set included 11 critically important outcomes from both patients and healthcare professionals.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n The results suggested that in the short term (up to 24 months) observation\/conservative management may be a cost-effective use of National Health Service resources in selected patients, but subsequent surgeries in the randomised groups and differences in quality of life beyond 24 months could reverse this finding. Future research should focus on longer-term follow-up data and identification of the cohort of patients that should be routinely offered surgery.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Trial registration<\/jats:title>\n This trial is registered as ISRCTN55215960.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Funding<\/jats:title>\n \n This award was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment programme (NIHR award ref: 14\/192\/71) and is published in full in\n Health Technology Assessment<\/jats:italic>\n ; Vol. 28, No. 26. 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