One-day bowel preparation with high dose PEG 3350 mixed with commercial electrolyte solution is tolerable, safe, and effective in children before colonoscopy.

These findings indicate that for children with special health care needs, enrollment in a multidisciplinary aerodigestive clinic may improve health care outcomes by decreasing technical direct cost by 70% and significantly decreasing patient hospital days by an estimated 1 week per year. Furthermore, coordinated aerodigestive care in a medical home setting may lower health care expenditures from a systems-based perspective.

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Significant correlation was found between frequency of soiling and rectoanal inhibitory reflex, as well as soiling and volume of first urge. There was correlation between withholding behaviors and maximum volume tolerated. The presence of blood inversely correlated with maximum volume tolerated. Anorectal manometry continues to provide additional new information and to assist in managing patients with this common chronic pediatric affliction.

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