Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is common and associated with significant mortality.
Current screening methods for CRC lack patient compliance. microRNAs (miRNAs) …

Background Circulating microRNAs (miRNA) have emerged as promising diagnostic
biomarkers for several diseases, including cancer. However, the diagnostic accuracy of …

Background & Aims The adenoma detection rate (ADR) is an important quality indicator of
screening colonoscopy; it is inversely associated with risk of interval cancers and colorectal …

Colonoscopy is a safe and effective tool, but operator dependent. Room for improvement in
the quality of colonoscopy is the impetus for the development and measurement of …

BACKGROUND:: The effect of patient education on bowel preparation for colonoscopy has
not been well studied. An improvement in patient understanding of the rationale for bowel …

Multiple sclerosis (MS) as a chronic, degenerative autoimmune disease of the central
nervous system has a longitudinal and heterogeneous course with increasing treatment …

Methods The purpose of this document is to augment the previously developed endoscopy
quality indicator publications first drafted in 2006 by the joint task force on quality in …

Background Inadequate bowel cleansing is associated with missed lesions, yet whether
polyp and adenoma detection rates (PDR, ADR) increase at the highest levels of bowel …

OBJECTIVES: Adenoma-detection rates (ADRs) are associated with decreased interval
colorectal cancer (CRC) rates and CRC mortality; quality improvement strategies focus on …

Background and Aims The adenoma detection rate (ADR) is a quality metric tied to interval
colon cancer occurrence. However, manual extraction of data to calculate and track the ADR …