A Comparison of Bowel Preparation for Colonoscopy Between Digestive Physicians and Non-digestive Physicians

Ningbo No. 1 Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bowel Preparation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04738578

MA-1.0

Details and patient eligibility

About

The diagnostic accuracy of colonoscopy depends on the quality of bowel preparation, which is a critical element associated with the diagnostic yield, difficulty, time required, and the completeness of colonoscopy. The non-digestive physicians seemed to have a lower quality of bowel preparation compare to the digestive physicians. Therefore, investigators planned to evaluate the risk factors for suboptimal intestinal preparation in outpatients from the perspective of digestive doctors and non-digestive.

Enrollment: 671 patients

Sex: Male

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All outpatients who have already completed the colonoscopy during December 2019 and October 2020.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with incomplete critical information, primary outcome, and baseline characteristics missing as well as examinations in hospitalized patients were excluded.