Strategies to Improve Inpatients' Quality of Bowel Preparation for Colonoscopy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Inpatients' bowel preparation before colonoscopy is frequently inadequate, and various interventions have been investigated to improve it, so far. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of various interventions to improve inpatients' colon preparation quality.

Methods

We systematically reviewed the literature for publications on interventions aiming to improve the quality of inpatients' colon preparation until June, 2018. Significant heterogeneity-measured with I ²-was detected at the level of P < 0.1. Adequacy rates were measured using inverse variance, and the size effect of different interventions was calculated using random effects model and expressed as odds ratio (OR).

Results

Seventeen studies enrolling 2733 inpatients we

SUBMITTER: Gkolfakis P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6525904 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature