An interventional study of Colonoscopy in Colorectal Cancer, sponsored by Chinese University of Hong Kong. Completed at 1 site in Hong Kong. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2013-08-15.
Sponsored by Chinese University of Hong Kong · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
There is no theoretical or practical reason why non-medical personnel such as nurses could not be trained to perform diagnostic colonoscopy with comparable proficiency as medical endoscopists. Nurse endoscopists have been widely accepted in the United Kingdom for the past 15 years as a valuable resource to cope with the increasing demand for endoscopic service, in particular diagnostic colonoscopy for colorectal screening. A pilot study performed in Hong Kong in 2008 has shown that endoscopy nurses can be trained to perform diagnostic endoscopy safely and reliably. This study aims to demonstrate that properly trained nurse endoscopists have a comparable proficiency in performing colonoscopy procedures as their medical counterparts.
5,599 studies on the registry are indexed under Colorectal Neoplasms; 1,459 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 731 is above the median of 77 across 4,123 interventional studies indexed under Colorectal Neoplasms.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Colonoscopy performed by nurse endoscopists supervised by senior medical endoscopists
Procedure: Colonoscopy
Colonoscopy performed by senior medical endoscopists
Procedure: Colonoscopy
Adenoma detection rate
Time frame: Up to 3 months
Cecal intubation RATE
Time frame: Up to 3 months
Withdrawal time
Time frame: Up to 3 months
Complication rate
Time frame: Up to 3 months
Patients pain score
Time frame: Up to 3 months
Patients overall satisfactory score
Time frame: Up to 3 months
Cecal intubation TIME
Time frame: up to 3 months
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