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A previous survey of Israeli gastroenterologists' recommendations for follow-up colonoscopy intervals based on photographs of various quality bowel preparations yielded wide-ranging responses. Now, in a similar study, 239 gastroenterologists (85% living in the U.S.) chose from a list of suggested follow-up colonoscopy intervals by assessing four photographs each of four different bowel preparations in a hypothetical average-risk, 55-year-old male undergoing screening. Photographs showed essentially no stool for the best preparation and sequentially more stool for the others.
Results were as follows:
For the best preparation, responses were 10 years (83%); 5 years (10%); 7 years (5%); and 1% each for 1, 3, and 6, and 8 years.
For the worst-appe…