Split-Dose Preparations Are Superior to Day-Before Bowel Cleansing Regimens: A Meta-analysis

Gastroenterology

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 79-88

  Martel, Myriam ^a,b   Barkun, Alan N ^a   Menard, Charles ^b   Restellini, Sophie ^c   Kherad, Omar ^d   Vanasse, Alain ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bowel Cleansings; Bowel Preparation; Meta analyses; Split Dose

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL; PICOSULFATE SODIUM; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; CITRIC ACID; LAXATIVE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; PHOSPHATE; PICOLINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; COLON ADENOMA; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ADULT; COLON; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; LAVAGE; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; CATHARTICS; CITRATES; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAXATIVES; MALE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHOSPHATES; PICOLINES; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION;

EID: 84931373568     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: 15280012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2015.04.004     Document Type: Article

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