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The Use of Magnetic Endoscopic Imaging for Improving Quality Indicators in Outpatient Colonoscopy

NCT01480830 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 633

Last updated 2024-08-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Colonoscopy is an important procedure for diagnosing and treating diseases of the colon. In Canada, up to 13% all colonoscopies do not examine the full colon and are therefore incomplete. Incomplete colonoscopies happen for a number of reasons but are often due to twists and turns in the colon that make the colonoscopy difficult to perform and uncomfortable for the patient.

This randomized study is being done to test a new colonoscopy system called the Scope Guide that shows an exact 3-dimensional picture of how the colonoscopy is positioned in the patient's abdomen.

We hypothesize that the use of the Scope Guide for colonoscopy will improve measures of colonoscopy quality including rate of complete examination, patient comfort, polyp detection rate, insertion time, amount of sedation required, and need for abdominal compression.

Conditions

  • Colonoscopy

Interventions

DEVICE

Magnetic Endoscopic Imaging (MEI) colonoscopy

Colonoscopy using the Scope Guide system (Olympus Canada Inc.) by

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Nova Scotia Health Authority

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Donald MacIntosh, MD · Nova Scotia Health Authority

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-09-30
Completion
2013-10-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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