Substantial and sustained improvement of serrated polyp detection after a simple educational intervention: results from a prospective controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Serrated polyps (SPs) are an important cause of postcolonoscopy colorectal cancers (PCCRCs), which is likely the result of suboptimal SP detection during colonoscopy. We assessed the long-term effect of a simple educational intervention focusing on optimising SP detection.

Design

An educational intervention, consisting of two 45 min training sessions (held 3 years apart) on serrated polyp detection, was given to endoscopists from 9 Dutch hospitals. Hundred randomly selected and untrained endoscopists from other hospitals were selected as control group. Our primary outcome measure was the proximal SP detection rate (PSPDR) in trained versus untrained endoscopists who participated in our faecal immunochemical test (FIT)-based population screening programme.

Result

SUBMITTER: Bleijenberg AGC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7677479 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature