Status:

COMPLETED

Comparative Effectiveness of Split-Dose Colonoscopy Bowel Preparation Regimens

Lead Sponsor:

VA Office of Research and Development

Conditions:

Colorectal Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE4

Brief Summary

From the patients' perspective, the most formidable part of the colonoscopy experience is the process of bowel cleansing. A poorly tolerated bowel preparation regimen often leads to incompletion of sc...

Detailed Description

Anticipated Impacts on Veterans Health Care: by identifying a colonoscopy bowel preparation regimen which is the most effective in real-world VA practice and can be immediately implemented on a VA-wid...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • \> 18 years of age, and
  • being scheduled for outpatient elective screening, surveillance or diagnostic colonoscopies, and
  • the provider ordering the colonoscopy giving permission to enroll the patient.

Exclusion

  • Patients who are \<18 years
  • undergoing inpatient colonoscopy
  • those with contra-indications to receiving the standard 4L PEG-ELS colonoscopy bowel preparation (e.g., allergy to PEG) will be excluded
  • Those with a preference for a specific bowel preparation will be excluded.
  • The investigators are excluding inpatient colonoscopies because they account for a very small fraction of the total colonoscopies performed.
  • Also, inpatient colonoscopies are often performed for urgent reasons such that rapid bowel preparation procedures are followed.
  • In addition, because the objective of inpatient colonoscopy is often not to look for small polyps, the threshold for "adequate" bowel preparation quality might be different from that for outpatient procedures.
  • In addition, for patients undergoing more than 1 colonoscopy during the study period, only their first colonoscopy will be included in the primary analysis.
  • Patients who are undergoing a repeat colonoscopy for to a recent inadequate colonoscopy examination with poor bowel preparation will be excluded.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

December 13 2018

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

June 30 2024

Estimated Enrollment :

2239 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03298945

Start Date

December 13 2018

End Date

June 30 2024

Last Update

February 5 2025

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Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104-4551