The Impact of Active Nurse Participation on Adenoma Detection During Routine Colonoscopy

Yale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adenoma

Treatments: Procedure: nurse observation during colonoscope withdrawal

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00859625

HIC0809004192

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hypothesis-- Nurse observation in addition to the colonoscopist while withdrawing the colonoscope from the cecum leads to a greater adenoma detection rate.

Methods- Patients presenting for screening colonoscopy are randomized to nurse observation or usual practice. Risk factors for adenoma development and the adenoma detection rate in each group will be evaluated.

Enrollment: 500 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• performance of screening colonoscopy

Exclusion criteria

• history of inflammatory bowel disease, gastrointestinal bleeding

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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500 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

Nurse participation during colonoscope withdrawal

Treatment:

Procedure: nurse observation during colonoscope withdrawal

2

No Intervention group

Description:

usual colonoscopy practice