Mo1554 Inpatient Colonoscopy May Be Inadequate for Colorectal Cancer Screening

Prevalence of missed adenomas in patients with inadequate bowel preparation on screening colonoscopy

“…Notably, a recent study suggested that the polyp detection rate is lower in inpatients versus outpatients. 23 Finally, our study was limited to colonoscopies with bowel preparation quality documented as poor, inadequate, or unsatisfactory in order to concentrate only on examinations considered inadequate for screening purposes by quality guidelines. 5 Meanwhile, the majority of colonoscopies included in the previous study had a bowel preparation quality rated as fair, which, although not optimal, may still be adequate depending on the degree to which the endoscopist could irrigate and suction the visual field.…”