DECEMBER 12, 2017

Colonoscopy Checklist: Things You Should Be Doing, but Often Don’t

Best practices aren’t accidental. Like Aristotle’s virtues, they are refined and reinforced by habit.

“For colonoscopy, there are things that you may not be doing in the endoscopy unit, but should,” said Charles J. Kahi, MD, MSc, professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, and chief of the GI section at the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, both in Indianapolis. In an invited lecture at the 2017 Digestive Disease Week, Dr. Kahi discussed