Garfinkle R, Almalki T, Pelsser V, et al. - The present study was conducted to describe conditional recurrence‐free survival (RFS) of patients after an index episode of diverticulitis managed without surgery and to calculate the difference in conditional RFS for diverticulitis according to specific risk factors. Researchers designed a multicentre retrospective cohort study including all patients managed without surgery for acute sigmoid diverticulitis at two university‐affiliated hospitals in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They calculated conditional RFS for diverticulitis over 10 years of follow‐up. They conducted Cox proportional hazards model at the index episode and again 2 years later. This study enrolled a sum of 991 patients. It was shown that the conditional RFS of patients with diverticulitis improved with each year that was survived recurrence‐free. The conditional probability of recurrence according to many of these risk factors converged with time, although several factors at index presentation may be associated with early recurrence.