Cap Assisted Colonoscopy Enhances Quality Based Competency in Colonoscopy Among Trainees

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal

In brief

The purpose of this study is to identify if performing diagnostic colonoscopy with a small plastic cap attached to the camera will improve performance of colonoscopies by physician trainees.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02472730

Run by

Baylor College of Medicine

People needed

219

Starts

2015-07-01

Expected to finish

2015-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-02-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All patients undergoing colonoscopy by a novice endoscopist

You may not qualify if…

• Age less than 18 years or greater than 90 years.
• Pregnancy.
• Prior surgical resection of colon or rectum.
• Known obstructing colorectal tumors.
• Severe hematochezia.
• Diverticulitis within 1 month of procedure.
• Clinical or radiological evidence of colonic obstruction or megacolon within 1 month of procedure.
• Referral for endoscopic mucosal resection.
• Unsedated colonoscopies.
• Colonoscopies abandoned due to inadequate bowel prep or colonoscopies with Boston bowel prep score < 3.

Where it is running

• Ben Taub Hospital — Houston, Texas, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.