Assessing bowel preparation quality using the mean number of adenomas per colonoscopy
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Assessing bowel preparation quality using the mean number of adenomas per colonoscopy.
INTRODUCTION The quality of the bowel preparation directly influences colonoscopy effectiveness. Quality indicators are widely employed to monitor operator performance and to gauge colonoscopy effectiveness. Some have suggested that the enumeration of the mean number of adenomas per colonoscopy (MNA) may be a more useful measure of bowel preparation quality, but evidence of the utility of this ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1756-2848,1756-2848
DOI: 10.1177/1756283x14540222