Accredited residents perform colonoscopy to the same high standards as consultants
| Autor: | Reuben Kong Min Wong, Dedrick Kok Hong Chan, Khay Guan Yeoh, Ker-Kan Tan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Adenoma
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Consultants medicine.medical_treatment Colonoscopy Hemorrhage 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine medicine Intubation Humans Intraoperative Complications Aged Quality Indicators Health Care Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Singapore medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry General surgery Internship and Residency Middle Aged Endoscopy Intestinal Perforation 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Colonic Neoplasms 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology Surgery Female Clinical Competence Detection rate Credentialing business Complication Abdominal surgery |
| Zdroj: | Surgical endoscopy. 32(3) |
| ISSN: | 1432-2218 |
| Popis: | Endoscopy remains a critical component of General Surgery and Gastroenterology training. Whilst residents need to gain experience, the quality of endoscopy which patients receive cannot be compromised. We conducted this study to compare quality indicators between consultants and residents with regards to colonoscopy. A review of colonoscopies from a prospectively collected database was performed from September 2011 to February 2016. Quality indicators such as caecum intubation rate, adenoma detection rate, adherence to a 6-min withdrawal rule, mean number of polyps detected per colonoscope, and complications were collected and compared between the two groups. In total, out of 25,749 colonoscopies that were performed, 14,168 (55.0%) were performed by Consultants. Consultants achieved a better caecum intubation rate compared with residents (96.0% vs 94.9%, p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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