Impact of a Telephone Intervention on Bowel Preparation Quality for Colonoscopy in the Elderly

In this study, no significant differences were observed in age, gender, body mass index, educational level, smoking and/or alcohol drinking, waiting time to colonoscopy, reasons for colonoscopy, and colonoscopic findings between the control group and the study group. Participants in the study group had higher adequate bowel preparation and compliance than the control group (83.1% vs. 59.5%, p = .03; 96.4% vs. 74.7%, p
Source: Gastroenterology Nursing - Category: Nursing Tags: Features Source Type: research