Romane Fostier, Georgios Tziatzios, Antonio Facciorusso, Apostolis Papaefthymiou, Marianna Arvanitakis, Konstantinos Triantafyllou, Paraskevas Gkolfakis
Adequate bowel preparation is of paramount importance for the effectiveness of preventive colonoscopy as it allows visualization of the mucosal surface and adenomas detection, the pre-malignant lesions leading to colon cancer. Still, a considerable portion of patients fail to achieve adequate bowel cleansing, with predictors of inadequate bowel preparation being at the focal point of several studies, so far. Incorporation of these factors within predictive models has been implemented in an effort to promptly identify patients at risk for inadequate bowel preparation and thus, timely adopt practices that have the potential to improve bowel cleansing...
December 2023: Best Practice & Research. Clinical Gastroenterology