Patient Preferences of a Resect and Discard Paradigm

Completed

Conditions studied: Colonic Polyps

In brief

The investigators conducted a study "Resect and Discard Diminutive Polyps: a new paradigm" (IRB ID # 201105473) from September, 2011 to July, 2013. This study examined whether doctors performing colonoscopy are accurate enough at predicting histology of small colorectal polyps, such that these small polyps could be resected and discarded (instead of being sent to pathology). One of the main advantages of this approach is significant cost savings by reducing pathology costs associated with screening and surveillance colonoscopy. A disadvantage is that there is a 0.03% chance that small polyps contain cancer. There is no data regarding patient preferences toward this approach. The investigators therefore designed a patient survey to determine the patient's view toward this approach.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02305251

Run by

Washington University School of Medicine

People needed

500

Starts

2012-06-01

Expected to finish

2015-11-02

Last updated by the study team

2017-05-11

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Indication for colonoscopy is screening or routine polyp surveillance

You may not qualify if…

• Indication for colonoscopy other than screening or surveillance
• Colon cancer identified at time of colonoscopy
• Known polyposis syndrome, or polyposis identified at colonoscopy

Where it is running

• Washington University in St. Louis — St Louis, Missouri, United States

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