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Improving Bowel Preparation for Colonoscopy With a Simple Educational Card

NCT00643682 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2000

Last updated 2012-10-01

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether adding a simple educational card to standard pre-procedure instructions improves the quality of bowel preparation for colonoscopy.

Conditions

  • Colonic Polyps
  • Colonic Neoplasms

Interventions

OTHER

Educational card

A 4x6 inch educational card containing a photo of an unprepared colon and a clean colon with the caption: "Drinking all the bowel cleaning medicine as described in the enclosed instructions lets the doctor see your colon better during your colonoscopy."

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Boston Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Brian C Jacobson, MD, MPH · Boston University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-02-28
Primary Completion
2008-06-30
Completion
2009-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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