Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients undergoing elective, non-emergency colon, resection surgery or abdominal perineal resection and no other requirements exists for a mechanical bowel preparation (as determined by the operating surgeon) * 18 years of age or older * Able to provide oral consent Exclusion Criteria: * Contraindication to the oral antibiotics, including allergies or adverse reactions to either metronidazole or neomycin * Undergoing a rectal resection with a planned anastomosis (these patients will all receive MBP) * Emergency surgery where no opportunity to administer preoperative oral antibiotics exists * Requirement for a MBP (i.e. rectal resection with pelvic anastomosis, intraoperative colonoscopy, or at the discretion of the treating surgeon