Comparing the Real-World Effectiveness of Competing Colonoscopy Preparations: Results of a Prospective Trial.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:National societies provide little guidance regarding which colonoscopy bowel preps are best tolerated and most effective; this reflects a lack of comparative effectiveness studies that directly evaluate the available preps in a "real-world" setting. To address this gap, we conducted a prospective, commercially unfunded comparative effectiveness study of currently available bowel preps and measured their impact on bowel cleansing. METHODS:We included patients aged ≥18 years, who presented for an outpatient colonoscopy at a large medical center serving more than 70 academic and community-based endoscopists who are free to prescribe the bowel prep of their choice. The primary outcome was bowel cleansing quality as measured by the Boston Bowel Preparation Scale. We performed regress

SUBMITTER: Gu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6551000 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature