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Posts Tagged ‘bowel preparation’

Our Love-Hate Relationship with Bowel Preps: It’s Time to Split Up!

M. Brian Fennerty • April 7th, 2009

Categories: Endoscopy, Patient care

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For the past couple years, my colleagues and I have been bemoaning the state of bowel preps, especially for colonoscopies done in the afternoon. As many as one third of those preps were so poor that we had to tell patients to resume screening at intervals sooner than 7 to 10 years, for fear of [...]